Evan Chapman, an 18-year-old from Oakland, California, was shot and killed on August 23, 2011, on the 1800 block of 79th Avenue in East Oakland. The shooting occurred during a year of sharply increased violence in the city: Chapman’s death was one of 104 homicides in Oakland in 2011.

That year Oakland’s homicide clearance rate was about 29 percent, well below the state average. Limited police resources, understaffing, and strained trust between law enforcement and the community are cited as factors that hampered investigations and contributed to low clearance rates; Chapman’s case is part of that wider pattern of unsolved violence.

If anyone has information about the shooting on 79th Avenue on August 23, 2011, please come forward to assist the ongoing inquiry.