Samantha Cothran was 23 when she was shot and killed while leaving a crowded birthday party on Minnesota Avenue in Buffalo, New York, on the night of May 13, 2012. She had graduated from Nardin and Fisk University with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and was pursuing a career as a pharmacist. Another partygoer was wounded and survived the shooting.

Despite numerous people at the gathering, the shooter was not immediately identified and the investigation went cold. The Buffalo Police Department lists the homicide as an active, open case; no arrests or publicly named suspects have been announced. Samantha’s mother and sisters have made public appeals for information and remember her as a beloved daughter, aunt, and sister.

If anyone was at that party or has information about the shooting on Minnesota Avenue that night, please come forward to assist the ongoing investigation.