Li Y was 23 when he was found fatally shot outside an apartment complex on Paces Oaks Boulevard near East W.T. Harris Boulevard in northeast Charlotte on April 23, 2020. Born March 24, 1997, in Vietnam, he was the son of Nhang and Nam Y. Officers from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department discovered him lying beside a car with a gunshot wound and opened an investigation.

Reports say the shooting occurred during an apparent robbery. For more than three years the case had no public breakthrough and remained unsolved. If anyone remembers seeing activity around that apartment complex on April 23, 2020, or has information about a robbery in the area that day, please share what you know with investigators.