On September 6, 2011, a family birthday celebration at Lorena’s Grocery on 50th and Parrish Streets in Philadelphia ended in a violent robbery and triple homicide. Juana Carmen Nunez, 44, was shot and killed in the back of the store along with her sister-in-law Lina Sanchez, 42; Juana’s husband, Porfirio Nunez, was shot when he moved toward the front of the shop. The couple’s two teenage daughters were behind the counter and survived, forced to watch the attack; one daughter later testified she begged for her life and handed over the money the family had before the shooters fled.

Surveillance footage showed two men entering and leaving the store. Initial descriptions identified two Black males around 25 years old. An investigation that connected this crime to other bodega robberies led to the arrest in February 2012 of Ibrahim Muhammed, then 31, and Nalik Shariff Scott, 30. At trial a surviving daughter identified both men and a jury convicted Muhammed and Scott on three counts of first-degree murder.