Crystal Marie Collins, 36, was killed on July 16, 2016, outside her north Minneapolis home near 30th and Newton avenues North when a burst of gunfire struck a family group gathered there. Family members said she had just returned from a family gathering and was outside with relatives when shots were fired around 8 p.m. Police found her wounded and, despite CPR efforts, she was pronounced dead at the scene; the Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide from a gunshot wound.

Reports in the days after the shooting said two other people were hurt and relatives said they did not know why anyone would have opened fire on the group. Early reporting indicated Crystal did not appear to be the intended target. Detectives later concluded someone in the group had returned fire, investigators noted shell casings that matched cartridges from an earlier parking-lot homicide that month, and some accounts described the shooting as believed to be gang related. One month after the killing there had been no publicly announced arrest, and databases list the homicide as unsolved.

Crystal left three children and is remembered by relatives as joyful and loving. Does anyone who knew Crystal or witnessed that night have information that could help explain what happened?