Erin Adams, 19, was killed in a West Oakland shooting on October 8, 2012. He was a passenger in a vehicle driven by 28-year-old Ronald Perry; both were found after their car crashed and police determined they had been shot while driving near 10th and Filbert streets. The double killing came amid a wave of violence in Oakland in 2012, when the city was struggling with high homicide numbers and a low clearance rate.

Erin came from a family already touched by street violence. His father, Eric Adams, had battled addiction and violence in the Acorn neighborhood before turning his life around; after Erin’s death, Eric worked as a violence interrupter for Youth ALIVE!, supporting other young people at risk of similar paths.

Are there readers who knew Erin or Ronald, or who have information about this 2012 shooting?