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On April 28, 2000, Garry Dewane Lee, a 22-year-old Black man from the Pittsburgh area, was shot and killed while working out with a friend at the C.S. Kim School of Karate in Center Township. His death was the final killing in a racially motivated shooting spree that day that left multiple victims across two counties.

The suspect was identified as 31-year-old white man Richard Scott Baumhammers. Witnesses at the shopping plaza where the karate studio was located provided a license plate number that helped police locate and stop Baumhammers. He was arrested at the end of the Ambridge-Aliquippa Bridge; officers found a gun, ammunition, and Molotov cocktails in his vehicle, and a gunpowder test indicated residue on his hands. He remained silent after being taken into custody.

Baumhammers was tried, convicted by a jury in 2001, and sentenced to death. An execution warrant was signed in early 2010 but was stayed as appeals proceeded; family members of Garry Lee have spoken about their frustration with the ongoing legal process. If anyone knew Garry Dewane Lee or was at the C.S. Kim School of Karate that day, what can be shared about him or the shooting?