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John Lauseng, 44, was killed on July 26, 2010, while preparing to open his West Palm Coin & Jewelry Exchange near Westgate and Congress avenues in West Palm Beach, Florida. Two masked men armed with semiautomatic weapons followed him through the store’s back door, forced him inside, and at some point he tried to escape. He was shot twice, once in the back and once in the arm, managed to cross the street seeking help and collapsed in front of a Circle K. He later died at St. Mary’s Medical Center.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office described the two shooters as about 6 feet 1 inch to 6 feet 2 inches tall and roughly 220 pounds, and about 5 feet 8 inches tall and roughly 130 pounds. They fled in a dark green cargo-type box van with tinted rear windows believed to have been driven by a third person. The store had surveillance video that investigators sought to use.

By October 2010 three men had been arrested in connection with the attempted robbery and Lauseng’s murder. Lauseng is remembered by family as a charitable husband and father whose death deeply affected his young daughter. Has anyone in the West Palm Beach area seen the described van or the men around the Westgate and Congress area in July 2010?