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Bradley E Brad Hancock, 24, was shot and killed outside a Salt Lake City music venue after an altercation on November 15, 2014. Hancock, a singer for the hardcore band Close Grip and a concert promoter, intervened when Quincy Earl Lawson, then 20, reportedly started a fight with Hancock’s younger brother and escorted Lawson out. Hancock later returned outside and threw a rock in Lawson’s direction; the rock did not hit him. Lawson then fired multiple rounds, striking Hancock in the head and arm. Hancock died at the scene; a bandmate suffered a minor foot wound from a bullet.

Lawson fled but was identified by witnesses and arrested several hours later in Nephi. He was charged with murder, obstructing justice, and multiple counts of felony discharge of a firearm, and was held on $1 million bail. The firearm used was not recovered. Hancock’s family remembered him as a passionate musician and a devoted father to his one-year-old son.

Did anyone at that show or nearby that night see critical moments of the confrontation or the shooter’s escape route?