Abdulahi Kadir Awuni, 19, was shot and killed while sitting in a car with two others on the evening of November 22, 2015, outside the Cedar 94 apartment building in Minneapolis’ Seward neighborhood. Awuni and a companion, Rastem Abubakar, were pronounced dead at the scene; a third occupant survived with non-critical injuries. Witnesses reported that suspects approached the parked vehicle and opened fire in what was described as a brazen attack.

Awuni was a well-known spoken word artist in the local East African community and had been about to start a job at a neighborhood theater company. The killings intensified fears among Somali and Oromo residents and prompted community leaders to urge witnesses to come forward, but distrust of law enforcement rooted in experiences from war-torn homelands has hampered cooperation. Multiple police appeals for assistance have produced no arrests and the case remains unsolved.

Did anyone in the Seward area see or hear anything that night that could help investigators?