Kenneth Maxwell ’Max’ Rusk was 17 and a senior at Jesse Bethel High School when he was fatally shot on May 14, 2015. He was walking on a trail near a skateboard park adjacent to Wardlaw Park and the high school around 11:55 a.m. when he was struck by gunfire and pronounced dead at the scene. The high school and nearby Joseph Wardlaw Elementary School were placed on lockdown as a precaution.

Investigators determined Max was shot in the back of the head and forehead with a .22-caliber handgun. Vallejo police identified and arrested two suspects: Zachery Allen Kroll, 25, and Elisha Marcel White Jr., who was 16 at the time. Kroll was charged with voluntary manslaughter and personal use of a firearm; White was initially charged as an adult but his case was later dismissed.

Kroll later pleaded to voluntary manslaughter and received a 21-year state prison sentence under a plea agreement. The Rusk family also settled a 2016 lawsuit against the Vallejo City Unified School District in 2018 for $350,000 payable to Max’s estate. Max’s parents described him as gentle, kind, and funny. Does anyone have information about Max’s movements that morning or the trail area that could help clarify what happened?