Darryl Lane, 34, of Chester, Pennsylvania, was shot and killed on February 17, 1999, after an argument outside a home in the 2400 block of Madison Street. The confrontation occurred in the middle of a winter afternoon as Lane walked up the steps toward the residence. Police say 20-year-old David Bentley, who lived in the 400 block of West 24th Street, was standing in the doorway when he produced an unlicensed gun and fired at least four times at about 4 p.m. Bullets struck Lane in the torso and face; he fell from the steps into the front yard, clutched his chest, and was pronounced dead shortly after paramedics arrived.

Bentley fled the scene but turned himself in that night and was charged with murder and arraigned the next morning before District Justice Kenneth Miller.