Raymond Paul Chase, 34, was shot dead outside his Dartmouth home at 41 Coventry Lane on the evening of May 13, 1999. At about 9:28 p.m. he pulled his 1998 Chevrolet truck into the driveway and as he began to exit the vehicle a lone gunman approached and fatally shot him. Chase died at the scene.

Witness accounts indicate the shooter ran from the driveway toward a nearby vehicle waiting on Coventry Lane, climbed into the passenger side, and the car fled toward Colby Drive. The use of the passenger seat implies a second person acted as getaway driver, but authorities have never publicly identified either the shooter or the driver, and no motive has been announced. Chase was involved in local business ventures, including home construction in the Bissett Lake area of Cole Harbour and part ownership of a drinking establishment; investigators have not publicly linked those activities to the killing.

The RCMP continued to call the case unsolved years later; on the twentieth anniversary in May 2019 the murder remained open and the case was accepted into Nova Scotia’s Rewards for Major Unsolved Crimes Program, with up to $150,000 offered for information leading to arrest and conviction. Does anyone with knowledge of Dartmouth in 1999 or the Coventry Lane area have information that could help identify the shooter or the getaway driver?