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Nathan Graham, 43, was shot dead after an August 17, 2018, confrontation outside a friend’s home in Rapid City, South Dakota. He and his wife Shayla were at the doorway when two teenagers—friends of the family’s son—arrived about 10 p.m. An argument between Graham and one teen, Ross Johnson, spilled into the street. The second teen, Ronald Black Cloud, fired two handgun shots; one round traveled roughly 69 feet before striking Graham in the head. Graham was taken to a hospital and died the next day on August 18, 2018.

Police arrested Johnson the next day and took him into custody in Meade County. Black Cloud initially fled and then surrendered at Rapid City’s Public Safety Building two days after the shooting, giving varying accounts of who fired and why during interviews. Prosecutors pursued adult charges. Johnson later pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and accessory to a crime and received a 20-year sentence. Black Cloud was tried and convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Graham was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, raised in Brooklyn, and was remembered in an obituary after his death. Does anyone have information about the events that night or knew Nathan and can help fill in unanswered details?