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On November 18, 2014, 19-year-old Marquell Givens was walking with three other people in Syracuse when he was shot in the back of the head and killed. The incident surprised the neighborhood and sparked a homicide investigation.

Investigators focused on Isiah Graham. A man who had been walking beside Graham at the time identified Graham as the shooter, and police say the motive was the theft of Givens’s pistol. About a week later, shots fired in a separate incident led officers to chase Graham; they recovered a revolver and a pistol, and forensic testing tied the recovered pistol to Givens. DNA from the pistol matched Graham, and he was arrested and prosecuted.

A jury found Graham guilty of second-degree murder, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and petit larceny. Does anyone have memories of Marquell or information from November 18, 2014 that could add context to this case?