Trayvel Aites was 19 when he disappeared from his family’s home on Frey Street in Baton Rouge in early March 2014. The family had lived at that address about 15 years. Nearly a week passed before Trayvel’s father, returning from work and disturbed by a feeling, searched the backyard and found his son’s body beneath the master bedroom window.

Investigators determined Trayvel had been shot twice in the back. Rumors reported he was seen speaking with someone on a nearby corner the day he vanished, then running as that person fired at him; he is believed to have run into the backyard seeking safety and succumbed to his injuries there. No arrests or publicly identified suspects have been announced, and no witnesses have come forward to provide a clear account.

The family later moved from the home where the killing occurred. Anyone with information that could help solve Trayvel’s murder is urged to come forward.