Xavier D Ferguson was 16 when he was shot in the 8600 block of East 93rd Place in Kansas City, Missouri, on the night of August 23, 2009. Police were summoned at about 11 p.m. after reports of gunfire; officers found him wounded and he was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he died.

Later accounts described a possible intruder cutting or peeling back a window screen and shooting him in the head while he slept, a detail that suggests access and intent rather than a street confrontation. Early public reports did not identify a suspect, provide a motive, or describe any arrests or charges, and investigators asked anyone with information to call the TIPS line.

If anyone in the neighborhood that night saw or heard anything out of the ordinary, did you pass that information along to investigators?