Joel Lee was 21 and a senior at what was then Towson State University when he was killed in Northeast Baltimore in September 1993. On his way to a classmate’s home to borrow a computer-science book, he was confronted in a parking lot by a group of young men, robbed of his wallet, and fatally shot in the face. The slaying deeply affected Baltimore’s Korean-American community, already on edge after earlier attacks on Korean-American merchants.

Police arrested 20-year-old Davon Neverdon and prosecutors relied on the testimony of four witnesses, three described as his friends, who said they saw him kill Lee after taking his wallet; another witness said Neverdon bragged about the killing. In July 1995 a jury of eleven African Americans and one Pakistani-American acquitted Neverdon of all charges. The acquittal prompted protests and anger in the Korean-American community. The U.S. Department of Justice reviewed the matter but in January 1997 declined to bring federal civil rights charges. No one has been convicted for Joel Lee’s murder.

Did anyone in Northeast Baltimore at the time see Joel or his car that September, or have information that could still help explain what happened?