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On November 22, 1993, 36-year-old Darla Kaye Bump of Oil City, Pennsylvania, was shot and killed after a confrontation that began when two young men, Michael Paul Foust and Kevin Zenker, had stolen a handgun earlier that day. Darla and Russell Rice chased the vehicle; it stopped, Foust retrieved the gun and fired multiple rounds into the car carrying Darla and Russell. Both victims died at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds.

Foust was charged on February 1, 1994, with two counts of first-degree murder. A motion to transfer his case to Juvenile Division was denied and he was tried as an adult. He was convicted on both counts and received two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. Appeals and constitutional challenges to his sentence as a juvenile offender have been filed over the years, but courts have upheld the sentence.

Did anyone in Oil City at the time see the pursuit or the vehicle involved who hasn’t come forward?