Danielle LiKole Parker was 22 when she was found shot to death inside a vacant home on West Evergreen Avenue in Youngstown, Ohio, on January 29, 2007. Three other people — Anthony M. Crockett, Christopher D. Howard, and Marvin E. Boone — were also killed in the same incident. Investigators believed the January 29 killings were tied to earlier violence: the slayings were viewed as retaliation for the ambush murder of Martwain Dill the previous year, after Dill had agreed to be a witness in a drug case. Police suspected Anthony Crockett was the primary target and that the others were with him when the shooting occurred.

The house where the victims were found has since been demolished, and the investigation remained unsolved as of the last known update. Former Detective Sgt. Darryl Martin, who led the inquiry, said the case suffered from a lack of physical evidence and witnesses and pointed to a community code of silence as an obstacle. The Youngstown Police Department and the Mahoning County Prosecutor’s Office continue to seek information.

Did anyone in the community have information about who was in that vacant home or about the chain of events leading up to the killings?