In the early hours of May 24, 2010, 31-year-old David Motley, an African American man, was found brutally stabbed to death in the parkway near Leith and Dexter streets in Flint, Michigan. His mother remembered him as a fun-loving person who brought joy to those around him; his death began a series of random, unprovoked stabbings that terrorized the community that summer.

Investigators linked the pattern of attacks to a suspect, Elias Abuelazam, an Israeli native living in Flint, who was connected to at least 14 attacks in the area and five fatalities, including Motley. Abuelazam was captured in August 2010 at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport while attempting to leave the country. Prosecutors later focused on the strongest case and secured a first-degree murder conviction and life without parole sentence for the murder of Arnold Minor in May 2012; they chose not to pursue separate trials for the other killings and assaults, including Motley’s.

Did anyone who knew David Motley or who was in that neighborhood on May 24, 2010, see anything that might still be relevant to his case?