Dawn was just breaking over Selma when officers found Charles Steele, a 56-year-old Black man, lying in the street at the intersection of Broad Street and Third Avenue. He was discovered about 5:30 a.m. with a gunshot wound to the head, the city’s first homicide of the year and a stark scene in public at a busy crossroads.

Investigators later said the shooting appeared to be a sudden act of violence tied to a robbery. About two weeks after the killing, Dallas County District Attorney Michael Jackson announced a 14-year-old had been arrested and charged with capital murder in Steele’s death; prosecutors filed a petition to try the teen as an adult. No other suspects were described in those reports.

If anyone was in the Broad Street and Third Avenue area that morning or has information about the robbery, please share what is known with investigators.