Kevin N. Jr., a 22-year-old Black man, was shot multiple times outside a hookah lounge on Allen’s Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island, on May 15, 2015. He was taken to Rhode Island Hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arrival; another man was wounded and about a half-dozen shell casings were recovered at the scene. The lounge was briefly closed by the Providence Board of Licenses but the case against the establishment was dropped days later for lack of direct evidence linking it to the killing.

A few months later Kevin’s 24-year-old half-brother, Christopher Mann, was found shot once and murdered in the backyard of an abandoned house in Brockton, Massachusetts. Investigators in both states examined whether the two slayings were connected. Providence police did arrest two men over a volley of gunfire thought to be retaliation for Kevin’s murder, but Kevin’s own killing remains officially unsolved and no one has been publicly identified or charged in his death.

Did anyone in the community know Kevin or the circumstances around that night on Allen’s Avenue and can provide information to investigators?