Julius N. Skippy Dale III, 26, was shot and killed on May 27, 2016, at a house on Creek Road in Sadsbury Township, Pennsylvania. He had been staying at 304 Creek Road with Lucas Allen Newnam and others; family remembered him as someone who enjoyed cooking, fishing, hunting, motorcycles, cars, the Dallas Cowboys, Van Halen, and trips to Northeast Maryland. He worked in construction and left behind a young son, parents, siblings, extended family, and friends.

Witnesses later told jurors the house had become a gathering spot where drugs were being sold and that tension had been building between Julius and Newnam over drugs, money, and alleged betrayal. Accounts differ on whether Julius was armed earlier that day, but several witnesses said Julius did not have anything in his hands, did not reach for a weapon, and did not make a threatening move when Newnam fired. Newnam fled into the woods after the shooting, was captured the next day, and claimed self-defense.

In August 2017 a Lancaster County jury convicted Newnam of first-degree murder; a judge sentenced him to life without parole and ordered restitution for Julius’s funeral. Pennsylvania appellate courts later upheld the conviction and sentence. Does anyone have memory of the Creek Road neighborhood or information about the people who were at that house that night?