In the early hours of March 18, 2021, a burst of gunfire on Sawdey Way in Rochester, New York, left 25-year-old Alyssa Renee Panda Spalty with life-threatening injuries. Alyssa, a Rochester native born December 3, 1995, was taken to hospital but died of her wounds the next day, March 19, 2021. Her death, which occurred near Emerson Street, was ruled a homicide.

Investigators publicly identified no suspects and no arrests were announced in the wake of the shooting. The case went cold and remains an unsolved homicide, a painful open wound for Alyssa’s family and the community. Law enforcement and Rochester Area Crime Stoppers have sought information from anyone who might help explain what happened that morning.

Did anyone in Rochester know Alyssa or see or hear anything on Sawdey Way near Emerson Street before dawn on March 18, 2021?