Osama Sam Haj-Hussein, 43, was shot and killed inside the In and Out Food Mart on Creech Road in Raleigh, North Carolina, on May 12, 2006. A customer found his body; his minivan was stolen from outside the store and recovered two weeks later on Chamberlain Road. The Wake County Sheriff’s Office released composite sketches of two men seen in the store that day and asked the public for help.

Authorities later arrested Samuel James Cooper, 30, of Raleigh, a convicted felon with a criminal history dating to 1993, and charged him in connection with five murders, including Haj-Hussein’s death. Prosecutors say Cooper confessed to the killings in police interviews; the defense argued he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and pathological dissociation from long-term abuse by his father. Cooper was held in Wake County Jail without bond pending a jury decision.

Anyone who knew Haj-Hussein, saw activity at the In and Out Food Mart on May 12, 2006, or has information about the men seen in the store is asked to come forward.