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Vuitton Garrett was 24 when he was killed during a mass shooting at an unlicensed after-hours music club in Oakland on May 9, 2010. The warehouse on Chestnut Street was hosting a CD release party around 2:45 a.m. when a gunman opened fire, killing Garrett and another man, Deshawn Valentine, and wounding four others.

The event was not officially sanctioned and was operating as an after-hours venue, a fact noted as complicating the response to the violence. At the time Oakland was experiencing high levels of gun violence — 94 homicides were recorded citywide in 2010 — and clearance rates for homicides were low, leaving many families without answers.

If anyone attended that CD release party or has information about the shooting on Chestnut Street that night, please share what you know with investigators.