Marquis Woolfolk, 18, was shot and killed in East Oakland on November 21, 2010. The killing occurred late on a Sunday night and was counted among Oakland’s 94 homicides that year. Marquis was a student at Dewey Academy, a continuation school, and had been selected for a CalTrans internship on a Bay Bridge retrofit project — an opportunity he and his mentors saw as a path toward a possible career in civil engineering.

Those who knew Marquis remembered him as energetic and determined; his death was marked in community memorials at St. Columba Catholic Church, which displayed crosses for victims to symbolize the loss felt by families. The case also reflects broader problems in Oakland at the time: persistent neighborhood violence and a low homicide clearance rate that left many cases unsolved. If anyone knew Marquis, his activities that night, or has information about this shooting, please come forward.