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Abraham Assana, 42, was killed outside Club Timbuktu near North Holton and East Center Streets on the night of June 30, 2012. Police say two men confronted him, ordered him to empty his pockets and hand over everything including his shoes; after he complied and removed his shoes he was shot. Bleeding, he ran back toward the club, collapsed in a patron’s arms and later died.

Detectives treated the case as a robbery that turned deadly and soon released surveillance images of a person of interest seen at Judy’s Red Hots on West Lisbon Avenue roughly two hours after the shooting. That man was described as a young Black man about six feet tall with a thin build, wearing a white T-shirt with a front design, blue jeans and possibly red tennis shoes. Investigators also later linked surveillance images to people who used Assana’s credit cards after the killing.

Assana’s family offered a reward and the case remained open; a remembrance gathering a decade later noted no arrests had been made. Who recognizes the person seen on the surveillance photos or has information about that night outside Club Timbuktu?