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On the evening of Sunday, January 5, 2014, 24-year-old Karon Bailey and his friend Basir Amaker, also 24, were sitting in a car on Media Street in West Philadelphia when an unknown assailant or assailants opened fire. Both men were struck multiple times; they and a third occupant, who was 22, were taken to Lankenau Medical Center. Karon and Basir were pronounced dead that evening; the 22-year-old survived.

The two had attended a memorial earlier that day for another friend, Le’Quan Green, who had been shot and killed the night before. Philadelphia police reported no motive, no suspects in custody, and no witnesses coming forward in the weeks after the killings. Ballistics showed at least two different guns were used. A $40,000 reward was offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction, but the case remained unsolved.

Did anyone in West Philadelphia on January 5 remember seeing a car or people nearby that night, or have information about who might have been involved?