On the night of May 3, 2003, 21-year-old Widener University junior John Lacey was shot and killed in the parking lot of Walio’s Frog Pond Café in Chester, Pennsylvania. Lacey, from Upper Darby, was walking from his campus apartment to the off-campus bar to buy beer; while speaking on his cell phone with his girlfriend at about 11:30 p.m., he was confronted by two people who attempted to rob him. He ran, was shot in the back, and managed to stagger into the bar before collapsing. He had six dollars in his pocket at the time.

Investigators arrested two men in connection with the robbery and shooting: Brandon Khalif Summers, then 17, and Jaliek Williams. Summers was identified as the shooter. In 2005 a jury convicted Summers of second-degree murder and robbery and convicted Williams of robbery; Summers received a mandatory life term without parole. Subsequent U.S. Supreme Court rulings on juvenile mandatory life sentences later made Summers eligible for resentencing, and his term was later reconsidered and adjusted to 40 years to life.

Lacey’s mother brought a wrongful death lawsuit against Widener University, alleging negligent security at the bar site, which had seen prior violent crime; the appeal court ruled the suit must go to trial. Does anyone have information about that parking lot or the bar on the night of May 3, 2003?