William Robert Teasley III was 22 when he was shot dead outside his Wilmington home in the early morning of March 14, 2018. Known to family and the local music scene as Sam and as the rapper Sam Vito, Teasley was struck by multiple gunshot wounds on the front steps of the 100 block of North Broom Street shortly after 2 a.m. His sister heard the shots, found him wounded, and emergency crews pronounced him dead at about 2:35 a.m.

Police opened a homicide investigation and appealed for information, but reporting from the period after the killing did not identify witnesses to the entire attack, provide a motive, or name a suspect. No publicly documented arrest, charge, trial or conviction was reported in the months following the shooting. Teasley was laid to rest at Silverbrook Cemetery after a service at St. Paul UAME Church.

If anyone knew William Sam Teasley, his routines, or saw activity around North Broom Street that night, please come forward with what you can share.