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On Memorial Day weekend 2013, 33-year-old Patrick Leo Cotrona was shot and killed while walking with two friends to a neighborhood pub in East Atlanta. The men were on May Avenue near Flat Shoals Avenue when a man approached, demanded money at gunpoint and fired as Cotrona reached for his wallet. Cotrona was struck in the abdomen and later died at Atlanta Medical Center. A friend, Marcus Peden, was sprayed with mace and wounded in the leg before the gunman fled with an accomplice in a dark-colored sedan, possibly a Dodge Stratus or Intrepid; nothing was taken from Cotrona.

Ballistic evidence linked the firearm used in Cotrona’s killing to a series of similar robberies that same night in the Kirkwood neighborhood. Investigators described the shooter as a young man believed to be about 16 at the time. A $25,000 reward was offered and police released an age-progressed sketch on the 10th anniversary, but no arrests had been announced and the shooter’s identity remained unknown.

Did anyone in the area at that time see the dark sedan or the young man described by police?