Nicoh James Mayhew, 25, was fatally shot on a December morning in 2012 outside his mother’s apartment in Capitol Heights, Maryland, while carrying his two-year-old son. The child was wounded in the attack but survived; Nicoh was found lying in a pool of blood on the driveway. A maintenance worker nearby saw two men in grey-black jackets approach Nicoh with guns as he exited his car with his child.

Investigators tied the killing to witness retaliation. Nicoh had been the star witness in the upcoming double murder trial of his nephew, Brian Mayhew, who was already incarcerated for the 2011 killings of Anthony McKelvin and Sean Ellis. Prosecutors say Brian arranged the hit from jail by making recorded phone calls in which he hired Stanley Winston and Anthony Cannon. Surveillance footage reportedly shows two men identified as Winston and Cannon running into the apartment building just after Nicoh and his son arrived.

In February 2016 a jury found Brian Mayhew, Stanley Winston and Anthony Cannon guilty on multiple counts including first-degree murder. Brian received an additional life sentence without parole plus 85 years; Winston and Cannon received life sentences plus 105 years. Does anyone have information about Nicoh’s life, routines, or who might have seen him that morning?