Big Bahadur Gurung was 20 and a recently arrived Bhutanese-Nepali refugee when he was killed on the night of August 23, 2011, in Baltimore. He had been in the United States about two months and was due to start a new job the next day. He and his 17-year-old nephew were walking along Bowleys Lane in northeast Baltimore when an armed robber confronted them. The assailant shot the nephew first; Gurung tried to wrestle the gun away and was shot in the chest. Emergency crews were called to the Parkside Gardens apartments around 10:12 p.m.; Gurung was pronounced dead at the scene and his nephew was critically injured but survived.

Police said the shooting was among a string of crimes affecting the city’s Nepalese and Bhutanese communities. In the days after the killing no arrests had been announced and no suspect was publicly identified. Does anyone with information about that night or the people involved come forward to help bring answers for Gurung’s family?