Donald Malcolm Payne III was 25 when he was killed by gunfire in Chester, Pennsylvania, on August 1, 2013. An obituary announced his passing and listed a funeral service on August 10, 2013, at St. Luke C. C. Church in Chester.

Contemporary news coverage placed Payne’s death amid a larger wave of violence in Chester but provided few case-specific details.

Family and friends have held remembrances for Payne, but the circumstances of his killing remain publicly unresolved.