Abdullahi Awil Abdi, 18, was shot and killed around 9:15 p.m. on April 11, 2008, while seated in a friend’s car in an alley by Cedar Avenue and 6th Street South in Minneapolis’s Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. He had spent the late afternoon at a community safety meeting at the Brian Coyle Community Center, said goodbye to friends about 8 p.m., and was killed just three blocks from the University of Minnesota’s West Bank.

A portrait of Abdi in reports shows a high-school senior who worked two jobs, planned to graduate and attend college that spring, and who often calmed arguments among younger teens. Police interviewed witnesses and at one point questioned a 23-year-old man as a person of interest; no one was charged in Abdi’s death. The shooting prompted increased patrols, community forums and organizing by grieving residents, but contemporaneous accounts indicate the homicide remained open with no formal charge.

Did anyone in the Cedar-Riverside community who knew Abdullahi or was there that night come forward with information?