William Michael Blackwell, 31, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, was shot and killed on December 30, 2016, in the 2000 block of Boyd Street around 3 p.m. Private surveillance video showed a tall, thin Black man exit a car, approach Blackwell from behind and fire several shots, then turn and fire additional shots while Blackwell lay on the ground. Blackwell suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his abdomen, right wrist, right arm and torso and was unconscious when paramedics arrived; he was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

Nearly seven years after the killing, Williamsport police identified Dawud M. Rogers, 42, as the shooter through interviews and eyewitness accounts and charged him in September 2023. Rogers was serving a federal sentence for heroin distribution at Allenwood Penitentiary and was prohibited from possessing a firearm because of a prior drug possession conviction. Investigators recovered several 9mm casings near Blackwell’s body; Rogers was charged with homicide-related counts plus aggravated assault, illegal possession of a firearm, carrying a firearm without a license and possession of an instrument of crime.

Did anyone who knew Blackwell or was in that Boyd Street area that afternoon see something that could help the case?