John Samuel Lee, a 24-year-old African-American man, was shot dead in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the early hours of Tuesday, June 8, 2004. He had been at a cookout at the Wallace Woods Complex on Wallace Road, left briefly with friends to visit a pool hall, then returned to the party. After coming back, an altercation reportedly took place and John was seen leaving the gathering.

Around 3:15 a.m. a woman at the complex was startled by a knock at her door, found no one there, then heard a gunshot. She discovered John on the ground, fatally wounded, on the side of an apartment building at 7132 Wallace Road. Police and EMS responded after a 911 call reporting shots fired. No suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests were made; the case was open but unsolved as of June 2004.

If anyone remembers that night or has information about John’s movements at Wallace Woods around 3:15 a.m., please come forward.