On Sunday, December 17, 2017, 19-year-old Dunier Chestnut was shot and killed at the intersection of Park and Oak Streets in Syracuse. A recent graduate of Henninger High School, Chestnut’s death is recorded as part of the city’s gun violence that winter.

Public details about the specific circumstances of the shooting are limited.

This remains a brief and incomplete account of a young life ended abruptly. Anyone who knew Dunier, witnessed the shooting, or has information that could fill in what happened that afternoon is asked to come forward.