On the late night of November 21, 2014, 23-year-old Richard Lobor was killed in an apartment in Portland, Maine, after stepping in to try to break up a dispute between two other men. Lobor, who had emigrated from Sudan with his family in 2003, was shot once in the leg and then fatally in the head when one of the men, identified as Abdirahman Huessin Haji-Hassan, produced a handgun and opened fire.

Haji-Hassan fled the scene and was located in Minneapolis, Minnesota; he was arrested on December 19, 2014 and returned to Maine to face murder charges. A jury found him guilty at a December 2016 trial and he was sentenced in March 2017 to 39 years in prison. Lobor’s family mourned his death, with his father, Robert Lobor, describing him as a special gift from God.

If anyone knew Richard, was present that night, or has information about the events leading up to the shooting, please share what is known.