Samad B. Slim Montgomery, 19, of Chester, Pennsylvania, was killed in the early morning hours of August 7, 2021, after police were called to the 1200 block of Clover Lane for a report of shots fired. Officers arrived around 5:00 a.m. and found Montgomery on his back outside the open driver’s side door of a gold Lexus; paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. Early reports described a hip wound while later accounts said he suffered several gunshot wounds. The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide by gunshot.

Investigators say the case centered on what they described as an illegal gun transaction. An iPhone XR recovered at the scene was reportedly used to contact Montgomery five times in the half hour before the shooting; prosecutors say those communications and related social media material pointed to a planned meeting and helped establish a possible motive. Arrests followed: a 17-year-old was taken into custody and charged as an adult in January 2022, and searches reportedly recovered marijuana and a fully loaded Ruger P95 9mm pistol.

The case is described as arising from a planned illegal gun deal that ended with Montgomery shot beside a vehicle on Clover Lane. Did anyone in Chester see or hear anything that morning, or know more about the meeting that preceded the shooting?