On the night of September 9, 2015, shots were reported behind an apartment complex on East Fulton Street in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Police found 21-year-old Rahdir Jahi Maxton in the parking lot of his building with a severe gunshot wound to the head. He was taken to Lancaster General Hospital and died three days later on September 12; an autopsy confirmed a single gunshot as the cause of death and the death was ruled a homicide.

Investigators pieced together the case over the next year and a half, reviewing surveillance footage and interviewing witnesses. Detectives say Victor Manuel Tirado arranged to meet Maxton in the parking lot under the pretense of a drug transaction, met him accompanied by two others waiting in a vehicle, shot Maxton in the head, then fled on foot before returning to the car. Tirado was charged with criminal homicide in February 2017 and a jury convicted him of first-degree murder after a two-day trial.

Maxton’s fiancée and his mother addressed the court at sentencing, describing the loss and the moments around his death. Does anyone who knew Rahdir or who was in that neighborhood on September 9, 2015 have information to share?