Earnest Williams was 18 when he was shot in the back on May 28, 2014, in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. The shooting happened just before 11:30 p.m. in the 800 block of Memory Lane, roughly a week before he was due to graduate from University Prep and months before he planned to start college. A neighbor, Chardai Warner, heard the gunfire and spoke with Williams at the scene; he gave his name, age, and his mother’s cellphone number before being taken to UPMC Mercy Hospital, where he later died.

His mother, Carla Staten, described him as a good kid who was not involved in drugs, and both Staten and his grandmother, Gloria Bracey, publicly urged anyone with information to speak with detectives. No arrests have been announced and the person or persons responsible have not been identified.

Did anyone in the Hill District at that time see or hear anything that could help bring Earnest’s killers to justice?