Jawad Ali Razai was 18 and of Afghan descent when he was shot and killed on October 28, 2014, in Durham, North Carolina. A recent Leesville High School graduate and Wake Tech student who wanted to be a sportscaster, he went with his father that evening to Pebblestone Drive to buy a cellphone advertised on Craigslist. During the transaction, 18-year-old Jarrion Hood reportedly attempted to rob him and shot him in the chest. Jawad was kept awake until paramedics arrived but later died at a local hospital.

Hood, who had a prior criminal record and was on probation for an earlier shooting in Durham, was charged with murder. Durham Police issued a public warning after the killing about the dangers of appointment robberies and advised conducting online-exchange transactions in daylight and public locations. Jawad’s friends and family remembered him as kind and outgoing; his funeral was held in Raleigh. Does anyone have information about that Craigslist meeting or the events on Pebblestone Drive that night?