Samuel DeMorris Branton Jr., 19, of Tallahassee, Florida, died after being found with severe gunshot wounds in the front yard of a house in the 200 block of Wilson Green Boulevard on July 19, 2015. He was taken to a local hospital but succumbed to his injuries. The shooting was one of three separate early-morning shootings in Tallahassee that day, and the Tallahassee Police Department opened an active investigation into his death.

Branton had been arrested in March 2015 along with his brother in connection with a vehicle theft operation, a detail investigators noted while pursuing leads. The neighborhood where Branton was shot was part of Operation Safe Neighborhoods, a community-policing effort that had been targeting escalating gun violence in the area. No immediate arrests were reported in Branton’s killing and the case remained unresolved.

Does anyone have information about Branton, his movements that morning, or the events on Wilson Green Boulevard that could help investigators?