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Devonte William Gantt, 22, was killed on January 4, 2015, after a planned marijuana transaction on the 700 block of High Street in Lancaster City turned violent. Reports say Gantt had been visiting his infant son that evening. He was shot and later found dead in a backyard; two other men were wounded in the same confrontation.

Police and later court accounts place Gantt with Amos Clay III when they met Stefon Landing. Investigators say the meeting deteriorated when Landing tried to take the marijuana rather than complete the sale, and Landing shot Gantt. Clay fired back, wounding Landing and receiving a leg wound. Both Landing and Clay were arrested; Clay faced felony weapons charges for being armed, while Landing was charged with criminal homicide.

At trial in 2015 a jury found Landing guilty of third-degree murder and related charges; he was sentenced in November 2015 to 22½ to 45 years and ordered to pay restitution. The case is remembered as the sudden loss of a young father and Lancaster native who had graduated from J.P. McCaskey High School and played basketball.

Did anyone who knew Devonte or was in that neighborhood that night see or hear anything that might shed more light on what happened?