Eli Samuel Morales-Pizarro was 34 when he was shot and killed in Syracuse, New York. On the evening of Thursday, July 30, 2015, police responding to a call on the city’s Near West Side found him with a gunshot wound to his torso. He was taken to Upstate University Hospital and later died of his injuries.

The Syracuse Police Department’s homicide unit opened an investigation, canvassing the neighborhood and speaking with potential witnesses. The case produced no publicly reported arrests or named suspects in the months that followed, and investigators did not disclose a motive. The community was left with unanswered questions after another violent episode that summer.

If anyone knew Eli Samuel Morales-Pizarro or has information about the shooting, please share what is known with the Syracuse Police Department.