Robert Colter III was 20 when he was shot outside his home on the 500 block of Bath Street in Bristol, Pennsylvania, on the evening of February 16, 2016. A nursing student at Bucks County Community College and father to twin girls, he was struck by a single gunshot to the head, taken to hospital, and died the next day.

Investigators worked the case for more than two years. In July 2018 three men were arrested: Dwayne J. Lynch, then 29; Rodney N. Beaty, 27; and Jaquan N. Wilkerson, who was 19 at arrest and 17 at the time of the shooting. Authorities said the shooting grew out of mistaken identity after the trio saw a vehicle belonging to a girlfriend of a rival parked near Colter’s house; Beaty reportedly told investigators Lynch and Wilkerson were the shooters, firing from the corner of Bath and Mifflin Streets.

All three were charged with criminal homicide, conspiracy to commit criminal homicide, and recklessly endangering another person; Lynch and Beaty also faced weapon-related counts. In May 2019 a jury convicted Lynch and Wilkerson of involuntary manslaughter and three counts of recklessly endangering another person; Beaty’s plea was later amended to match that outcome. In October 2019 Lynch and Jaquan Nyzier Wilkerson were sentenced to four and a half to nine years, and Beaty to four to eight years plus three years probation. If anyone knew Robert, his movements that night, or has information about the shooting, please come forward.