Lee Caster Lewis III, a 34-year-old Black / African American male, died by gun violence in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, on February 14, 2011. In the early morning hours of Valentine's Day, Coatesville police later listed him among the city's unsolved homicide victims, saying he was killed at 3:54 a.m. inside 30 Strode Avenue, an address associated online with Premier Images, a local barber shop.
The available online record leaves the case with a quiet, unresolved feeling.
Lewis is remembered in memorial entries as someone connected to barbering and the barbershop, and the setting places his death not in a distant or hidden place, but in a familiar neighborhood business address in Coatesville. What should have been an ordinary early morning became another entry in a growing list of violent deaths that city police would later ask the public to help solve.
Years after Lewis was killed, Coatesville police included his name in a public appeal involving multiple unsolved murders. The department offered a reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in those cases and directed anyone with information to contact Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers, Coatesville police, or Chester County detectives. That public request indicates investigators still needed witnesses, tips, or evidence strong enough to move the case forward.
No reliable online source located identifies a named suspect in Lee Caster Lewis III's killing. No arrest connected to his death was found in the available online reporting, and no charges, trial, conviction, sentence, or punishment could be confirmed. Based on the online sources available, his homicide remains unsolved.
