On the evening of September 19, 2023, 29-year-old Lebanese American businessman Hassan Mahmoud Salami was shot three times in the parking lot of a sushi restaurant on Ford Road in East Dearborn, Michigan. Salami, who owned Lama Flowers, was leaving the restaurant with his fiancée around 9:30 p.m. when assailants confronted the couple, stole Salami’s necklace, watch, and the keys to his Mercedes G-Wagon, and shot him. His fiancée was not physically harmed. Salami was taken to Corewell Health Hospital and later pronounced dead.

Dearborn police described the attack as a random act of violence. Arrests followed: the day after the shooting two Detroit men, 29-year-old Lindsay Thurmond and 31-year-old Quenton Goston, were arrested and charged with first-degree murder, felony murder, and armed robbery, and a third suspect, Devon Travon Green, was later charged with murder. A fourth arrest was announced in March 2025, when 35-year-old Dawanne Midgett was charged in connection with the killing.

Did anyone in Dearborn or the surrounding area see the couple or the stolen Mercedes G-Wagon that night?