James Jean Hendricks, 19, was found shot to death in the front yard of an abandoned house in Birmingham, Alabama, in the early morning of Thursday, August 24, 2017. Responders discovered his body and he was pronounced dead at the scene around 1 a.m. He had been shot multiple times. Conflicting information at the scene initially complicated identification; the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office confirmed his identity by fingerprints.

Why Hendricks, a male teenager, was at the abandoned property was not clear to investigators in the immediate aftermath. The case was classified as a homicide, but no motive, suspects, or arrests had been publicly identified in the days after the discovery and investigators continued their work.

Did anyone in Birmingham have information about Hendricks’ activities that night or the abandoned house where he was found?