Lasantos Donte Saunders was 30 when he was killed on February 1, 2020, at the Sunoco A Plus Mini Mart at Kerlin and West 9th streets in Chester, Pennsylvania. The incident began as a robbery in which Saunders was assaulted and robbed by multiple people inside the store. Store employees managed to get the attackers out while Saunders stayed inside for his safety.

Shortly afterward, 29-year-old Tahriq Doward returned and an exchange of gunfire occurred between Doward and Saunders; both men were shot and later died, with Saunders found unresponsive in a car a block from the scene and pronounced dead there. Police later arrested 21-year-old Jaquail Dale and 29-year-old Lamont Mallory on charges related to the robbery and assault, but they were not charged with Saunders’ homicide after investigators determined Saunders and Doward shot each other during the firefight. The case raised Chester’s homicide count to five for 2020 and deeply affected Saunders’ family and the community.

Was anyone in the area that night able to provide details about how the robbery unfolded or about movements around the Sunoco before the shooting?