Kawon Monk Chavis, 36, known as Monk, was fatally shot on the evening of January 2, 2019, in the hallway of an apartment building at South Salina Street and Corning Avenue in Syracuse, New York. Emergency responders went to the scene but Chavis succumbed to his injuries; the shooting was the city’s first homicide of the year.

The Syracuse Police Department opened an investigation but has not publicly identified a suspect in the killing. A few days after the murder three people were arrested and charged with assaulting Chavis’s girlfriend; authorities said that attack appeared intended to intimidate her and discourage her from talking, but those charges were not for the homicide.

No one has been charged with Kawon Monk Chavis’s murder and the case remains an open, unsolved homicide. If anyone has information about what happened that night, please share it with the Syracuse Police Department.