Williams Amail Howard, a 28-year-old African American man, was found dead on March 9, 2014, in Sanford, North Carolina. He was discovered lying on the ground outside an apartment building with a puncture wound to his neck. Authorities were called about 8:40 a.m., and Howard was pronounced dead upon their arrival.

Sanford police arrested a suspect shortly after the discovery. Lynard Jerome McCormick, a 30-year-old African American man who lived at the same address as Howard, was charged with one count of murder and held without bond at the Lee County Jail. Police have said Howard and McCormick were involved in a violent altercation that led to Howard’s fatal injury but have not disclosed how the two men knew each other or provided a motive. No further details about witnesses or other suspects have been released.

Did anyone in the Sanford area know either man or see anything the morning of March 9, 2014?