Kawon Monk D. Chavis, a 36-year-old Black man from Syracuse, New York, was shot and killed inside the Corning Arms Apartments on South Salina Street on the night of January 2, 2019. Police were called to 2935 S. Salina St. at about 9:05 p.m. for reports of shots fired and found Chavis in a hallway with at least one wound to the upper body; he was pronounced dead at the scene and became Syracuse’s first homicide of 2019.

In the hours after the shooting officers secured the building, canvassed for witnesses, and processed the hallway where he was found. Public updates in the days and months that followed described an investigation still seeking traction; police said they had no suspect information to release and asked anyone with information to contact the department.

The day after Chavis was killed, prosecutors said his girlfriend was attacked on Fernwood Avenue in an alleged attempt to force information from her about the homicide. Three people were arrested in that assault: Lula Stewart, 20; Tatiayana Higdon, 20; and a 16-year-old. Those arrests were tied to the attack on the girlfriend, not to Chavis’s killing, and no arrest had been announced in the homicide itself.

Chavis’s obituary and funeral arrangements were made public as family and friends mourned. Does anyone have information about what happened at the Corning Arms Apartments that night?