Evon Young, 22, known in Milwaukee’s music scene as Yung LT, was last seen on New Year’s Day 2013. A transgender man with plans for an album, Evon failed to report for work at Perkins and missed a meeting with his mother on January 2. His roommate, Billy Griffin, initially told police Evon left their North 52nd Street home around 10:45 a.m. in a Chevrolet Impala.

Investigators shifted the case from missing person to homicide after the mother found a cell phone near the house that was traced to two men later implicated. Griffin’s account unraveled and he later admitted involvement in Evon’s death. Authorities charged Griffin and four others — Victor Stewart, Ashanti McAlister, Ron Joseph Allen, and Devin Lattrez Seaberry — alleging a gang-related motive tied to a past burglary. Reports say Evon was beaten in his basement, shot, and his body burned; searches of a Menomonee Falls landfill in February 2013 did not recover remains.

This remains a devastating case about a young artist whose life was cut short. Anyone with information about Evon or the events of January 1, 2013, is asked to come forward.