Jacquaez Simmis, a 22-year-old Black man, was killed in a shooting in the early hours of Saturday, November 19, 2011, in North Omaha. Police were called to the area near 33rd and Burdette at about 2 a.m., and found Simmis dead at the scene; another person suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital. That night’s incident was one of three separate shootings in the area.

Less than a year earlier, on December 18, 2010, 33-year-old Mickle Graham had been killed when up to 20 bullets were fired through the walls of his fiancée’s home. Simmis was among three people arrested in connection with Graham’s death, but he never served prison time for that case; only one of the three arrested later served significant time, and for an unrelated offense. The Omaha Police Department opened a homicide investigation into Simmis’s killing, but details about circumstances or motive have not been released and no arrests or suspects have been publicly identified.

Does anyone who lived in North Omaha in November 2011 remember details or have information about the shootings that night?