On November 6, 2019, 18-year-old Xavier Young was found shot on a porch in the 2400 block of Chelsea Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. Hours earlier he had been celebrating a new job as a security guard — a step his family saw as a hopeful fresh start. Xavier had graduated high school and lived with ADHD and bipolar disorder; his mother Sheila Williams described him as loving, good with his cousins’ children, and skilled with electronics.

Xavier’s killing was the third homicide in the city that day and is counted among the spike in homicides that pushed Kansas City toward a near-record total for 2019. Williams said she believes he was lured to the location where he was killed. No arrests have been publicly announced and the case remains unsolved.

Did anyone in the community know Xavier, his routines, or have information about that night?