Samuel Algarin, 31, was found dead on the side of Limestone Road in West Fallowfield the night of September 13, 2018. He had finished a shift at a Quarryville car dealership that evening, met his mother and two children, attended a martial arts class with the kids, and after dinner was dropped off in a Starbucks parking lot where his GMC Terrain was parked. He never reached his mother’s home. An autopsy confirmed a single gunshot wound to the chest; his vehicle, wallet, and phone were missing when his body was discovered.

Investigators identified 30-year-old Hakeem Smith of Oxford as the suspect. Surveillance footage from a nearby gas station showed Smith driving Algarin’s SUV minutes after the drop-off. Smith’s palm print was found on the recovered vehicle, his fingerprints were on Algarin’s discarded cell phone, and blood was found on the SUV driver seat. Smith was located and arrested and later charged with homicide, robbery, and related offenses. In December 2021 a jury found Smith guilty of second-degree murder and robbery; the jury acquitted on first-degree murder.

Did anyone in West Fallowfield or along Limestone Road see Samuel or his GMC Terrain that evening?