Excell Cooley was 23 when he was shot dead in Buffalo’s East Side neighborhood on March 25, 2007. The fatal gunshot to the head happened about 4 a.m. while he was a passenger in the backseat of a vehicle parked at 23 Southampton Street.

The shooting ended Cooley’s life and has remained an unsolved homicide. Investigators have continued to work the file and Crime Stoppers has offered rewards for information, but no suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests have been announced.

Whoever knew Excell or was in that neighborhood the night of March 25, 2007, is asked to come forward with any information that might help bring justice.