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'He was targeted' | Man 'executed' in home while shaving remains cold

"I don't think Hubert ever saw it coming," an investigator said of the 67-year-old who was shot dead in his home while shaving.

ATLANTA - A 67-year-old man was in the head and chest while shaving in 2014 and years later, police continue to search for his killer.

Hubert Lyle was living a quiet life at a home in a nice neighborhood in southwest Atlanta after serving 20 years for dealing drugs.

His roommate saw Hubert before she went to work that June 2014 morning.

She came home at the end of the day and thought he was taking a shower because she heard water running. She later got worried when the water never stopped.

“She yells 'Hubert.' Nobody answers,” Investigator Kevin Otts with Atlanta Police said. “She's like ‘maybe I should go check on him.’ It wasn't the shower. It was actually the sink and she found him in the bathroom hunched over.”

Police said there was no forced entry and nothing was stolen.

Only three other people had keys to the house: his roommate and two family members.

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“That's what struck as real odd at first,” Otts said. “We figured a home invasion. There was nothing missing, nothing stolen. There was no sign of a struggle whatsoever.”

Police ruled out any current connection to the crime. Despite his earlier drug days, Hubert was clean since he got out.

“This was not a random crime at all. He was targeted,” Otts said. “I think when he was bent over the sink shaving, he was shot twice in the back of the head and when he fell down to the ground they put one more in the chest.”

The motive for his murder may go back to a jail-house rumor.

“Word was when Hubert was dealing drugs back in the 80's he stocked away money. They said he squirreled it away. There was a big rumor that Hubert had a pile of money when he got out of prison to get to.”

It's a rumor Investigator Otts doesn't believe.

“I don't think Hubert ever saw it coming,” Otts said.

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