In the pre-dawn hours of September 7, 2008, 27-year-old James Angelo was fatally shot while working as a security guard on duty in the Mercy Hospital parking lot on Winter Street in Portland, Maine. James, a Black man whose family had come to Portland from Sudan, was making his routine rounds at about 4:00 a.m., protecting staff and doctors’ vehicles while studying Criminal Justice at Southern Maine Community College.

Grainy surveillance footage showed two indistinct figures fleeing the scene, but no identities emerged. James was a youth soccer coach and a father to a young daughter; his soft-spoken kindness and warm smile made his violent death especially painful for Portland’s Sudanese community and others who knew him. The Portland Police Department lists the killing among the city’s unsolved homicides; a reward was offered but no arrests have been announced.

If anyone knew James, saw activity in the Winter Street hospital lot that morning, or has information that could help, please come forward.