James Henley Jr. was a 27-year-old Black man from Buffalo, New York, and a former standout athlete at South Park High School. In the early hours of Sunday, August 19, 2012, he was in a parking lot near South Elmwood and Johnson Parkway, close to the city’s Entertainment District, when he was fatally shot.

Buffalo Homicide Detectives opened an immediate investigation. A few days later, Mayor Byron Brown said he believed the shooting was unlikely to have been random, noting that in similar crimes the people involved were usually known to each other. Neighbors near the scene expressed alarm and called for more police patrols and a city surveillance camera.

No suspect has been publicly identified, and detectives were still searching for the person responsible as of August 2012. If anyone knew James, was in the area that night, or has information about who he might have known, please come forward.