John Samuel Lee

Do you know who murdered 24 year old John Samuel Lee in 2004?
John Samuel Lee, a 24-year-old African-American man, was killed in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the early hours of Tuesday, June 8, 2004. He had spent part of the evening at a cookout at the Wallace Woods Complex on Wallace Road, socializing with friends before his life was abruptly ended by a single gunshot.

The hours before the shooting seemed ordinary. John attended the grill-out, left for a time with friends to visit a pool hall, and then returned to the party to get some more food. At some point after he came back, an altercation of some kind reportedly took place. John was seen leaving the gathering again shortly after.

Around 3:15 a.m., a woman living in an apartment at the complex was startled by a knock on her front door. When she went to answer it, she found no one there. Almost immediately afterward, she heard the sound of a gunshot. When she looked around the side of the building, she made a devastating discovery: John Samuel Lee was on the ground, fatally wounded.

Police and emergency services arrived after a 911 call was made reporting shots fired in the area. They found John deceased on the side of an apartment building at 7132 Wallace Road. In the years since his death, no suspects have been publicly identified, and no arrests have been made. The investigation into the murder of John Samuel Lee remains open but unsolved as of June 2004.