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On the afternoon of Sunday, November 1, 2015, 16-year-old Saleem West was riding a bicycle with a friend in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood of Philadelphia when a silver Buick began following them. The vehicle pulled ahead, two people got out, and as Saleem and his friend tried to run away, seventeen rounds were fired in their direction. Saleem was hit once in the back and died of that wound; his friend escaped uninjured.

Saleem was a junior at Delaware Valley Charter High School and a varsity basketball point guard who hoped to play in college and the NBA. His mother called him her miracle baby and said they were very close. Reports note he had recently been involved with the wrong crowd but had begun seeing a new therapist and was trying to turn his life around.

Within days police arrested two 17-year-olds, Rahiem Feaster and Tyree Johnson, and charged them with murder, saying the shooting appeared connected to a feud between rival teenage groups. Does anyone who knew Saleem or was in Strawberry Mansion that day have information that could help clarify what happened?