Raheem Jean Pierre was 20 when he was killed outside his family home in Miami Gardens, Florida, on July 27, 2017. He was sitting in a Mercedes in front of the 2400 block of NW 175th Terrace with a cousin and a friend when multiple gunmen approached and opened fire at about 10 p.m., discharging roughly 15 shots. Raheem was fatally wounded and his friend was injured; the shooters fled immediately.

Raheem’s mother, Loraine Jean Pierre, remembers hearing the shots, taking cover in the kitchen and then finding her son still alive in the car before he died. A bullet hole remains in the family home. Despite a later reassignment to a new detective and repeated public pleas by his mother, no arrests have been announced and police have not disclosed a motive. The family has kept the Mercedes in hope it will yield a clue.

Did anyone in the community see activity near NW 175th Terrace that night or know anything that could help bring the shooters to justice?