Tyshaud Nikese Brown, an 18-year-old student at West Mecklenburg High School, was found dead on March 22, 2017, near the baseball field behind Allenbrook Elementary School in northwest Charlotte. His mother had reported him missing that morning after he left home on his bike the night before and did not return. Officers responding to a 911 call around 1:30 p.m. discovered Brown lying near the field with an apparent gunshot wound; paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.

Investigators say Brown posted an Instagram video the night he went missing; that video was later shared with local media by a family member. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department opened a homicide investigation, canvassed the area, and identified the death as the city’s 20th homicide of 2017. A 15-year-old male juvenile was later charged with accessory after the fact to murder, but no one has been charged with Brown’s murder itself and the case remains under investigation.

Does anyone who was in northwest Charlotte near Allenbrook Elementary on March 21–22, 2017 remember seeing Tyshaud or anything unusual that night?