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On April 28, 2000, Garry Dewane Lee, a 22-year-old African American man, was fatally shot at the C.S. Kim Karate School in Beaver County. Lee was the fifth and final victim in a short, racially motivated rampage that targeted people of several ethnic and religious backgrounds across suburban Pittsburgh.

The attacker, identified as 34-year-old Richard Scott Baumhammers, carried out multiple shootings over roughly two hours, beginning at the home of a Jewish neighbor and including an attack at an Indian grocery store and a Chinese restaurant. Law enforcement apprehended Baumhammers in Ambridge; officers recovered a firearm, spent shell casings, and materials for making Molotov cocktails in his vehicle. Reports say Baumhammers deliberately spared a white person who was with Lee at the karate school.

The investigation treated ethnic intimidation as the motive. Baumhammers was charged with multiple counts related to the killings and attempted killings; at trial his defense argued insanity and he was found guilty of the five murders and sentenced to death. The victims families, including the estate of Garry Dewane Lee, later filed wrongful death suits against Baumhammers and his parents.

Did anyone who knew Garry or was in the Beaver County area that day have details about his activities at the karate school?