Vernon Appleton Jr., 24, of Akron, Ohio, was shot multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene after a dispute outside a home on Diagonal Road on the night of November 12, 2014. Akron police opened an investigation immediately and initially had no suspect identified.

In the days after the killing authorities identified 24-year-old Marriece Ellis as a suspect and sought a warrant charging Ellis with aggravated murder; investigators say Ellis allegedly fired multiple shots at Vernon during the altercation. The U.S. Marshal Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force joined the search when Ellis was believed to be at large.

Appleton’s family remembered him as a musician and athlete who loved rapping, making beats, and playing football and basketball; he is survived by his mother, father, siblings, and daughters. Does anyone have information about that November 2014 shooting or knew Vernon or his activities around Diagonal Road?