On October 16, 2011, 34-year-old Dwayne Smith of Chester, Pennsylvania, was shot and killed on the sidewalk in the 700 block of East 10th Street near Hyatt Street. He was found dead at the scene early that Sunday morning.

Investigators arrested 26-year-old Tyreek Wilson of Chester and charged him with first-degree murder and possessing an instrument of crime. At trial witnesses identified Wilson as the shooter and said the killing was retribution for the October 3, 2011, fatal shooting of his friend Marvin Fitzgerald. Wilson’s grandmother testified he was at home during the shooting, but the jury convicted him. Wilson was sentenced to life without parole and ordered to repay $5,854 in funeral expenses.

Smith’s family remembered him as kind and generous; his mother called him her only son and best friend and said she forgave Wilson. The earlier fatal shooting of Marvin Fitzgerald remains unsolved.