Johnton Banks, 23, was fatally shot outside a home near 30th Street and Stone Avenue in Omaha’s Miller Park neighborhood on the evening of December 27, 2019. Police were dispatched just after 7:30 p.m., aided by a ShotSpotter activation reporting multiple gunshots. Officers found Banks in the front yard with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The gunfire shattered windows in the house and a 10-year-old boy inside was injured by flying glass.

Detectives said it was too early to say whether the attack was random or targeted. Family members and neighbors gathered at the scene pleading for answers, and Banks’s mother said she believed the shooters had the wrong person. Omaha Police and Crime Stoppers later featured the case in a Gone But Not Forgotten campaign and offered anonymous tips and a cash reward up to $25,000. No arrests or publicly identified suspects have been announced and the homicide remains listed among the department’s cold cases.

If anyone has information about what happened that night, please contact Omaha Police or Crime Stoppers with any credible tips.