Demikeo Allen was 18 when he was shot and killed in Cincinnati’s Clifton Heights neighborhood on September 30, 2017. Officers responded to reports of gunfire around 1:35 a.m. and found Allen with fatal gunshot wounds near West McMillan Street and Moerlein Avenue; he was pronounced dead at the scene. His death came two days before his 19th birthday.

The Cincinnati Police Homicide Unit opened an investigation but had not identified any suspects and described the motive as unclear. Family and friends remember Allen as a young man with his whole life ahead of him, and police have asked the community to provide any information that might lead to justice.

If anyone has information about the shooting near West McMillan and Moerlein Avenue in the early hours of September 30, 2017, please share what you know with investigators.