On December 28, 2000, 18-year-old Tyrone Long Jr. was one of seven people executed in a row house at 816 North Lex Street in the Mill Creek section of West Philadelphia in what became known as the Lex Street massacre. Victims were forced to lie face down before being shot; other dead included George Porter, 18; Calvin Helton, 19; Samuel Malik Harris Jr., 19; Ronnette Abrams, 33; Edward Sudler, 44; and Alfred Goodwin, 54. Three people survived: Yvonne Long, 33; Bruce Carter, 45; and Greg Kilby, 37.
Initial arrests of four men—Jermel Lewis, Sacon Youk, Hezekiah Thomas, and Quiante Perrin—ended when charges were dropped for lack of evidence; those men later settled a wrongful arrest claim. In 2002 new charges named Dawud and Khalid Faruqi, Shihean Black, and Bruce Veney; both Faruqi brothers were convicted and given seven consecutive life terms, Black pleaded guilty to multiple life terms, and Veney, identified as the getaway driver, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and drew 15 to 30 years.
Did anyone who knew Tyrone or the other victims attend the home where the shooting occurred and remember anything that could still help explain what happened that night?