Aaron Shuford Jr., 21, was shot and killed on October 12, 2020, in Charlotte, North Carolina. The shooting happened while he was inside a car at the intersection of Old Statesville Road and West W.T. Harris Boulevard.

Shuford’s family and friends remember him as a happy young man and a standout basketball player at Vance High School. The killing came amid a surge in city homicides in 2020; by mid-October Charlotte had recorded 94 homicides compared with 78 over the same period the prior year. Beyond those broad statistics, key details about who shot Aaron or why remain unknown.

If anyone has information about Aaron’s death or was in the area that night, please share what is known with investigators.