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Lonell Franklin, 21, was killed in a drive‑by shooting in Denver on January 11, 2010. Franklin, a Black male, had been in a verbal altercation earlier that night at a liquor store with an unidentified person. After he, a friend identified as DeShon Lee, and a female companion left the store, their vehicle stopped at a traffic light at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Steele Street when a silver or gray SUV pulled alongside and an occupant or occupants opened fire.

Franklin died at the scene. DeShon Lee was critically injured, taken to a hospital, and later died that night. The female passenger was wounded and survived. The SUV fled immediately and, despite a reward and public appeals, no arrests or public identifications of suspects have been made; the Denver Police Department lists the case as a cold case homicide.

Does anyone have information about the liquor store dispute, the vehicles involved, or the people present that night?