Late on the night of July 9, 2014, Wilmington police responded to the 100 block of East 22nd Street and found Otis Saunders, a 27-year-old Black man, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken by ambulance to Christiana Hospital in Newark and pronounced dead a short time later. Authorities described the killing as a targeted act in the street late on a Wednesday night and included his death among Wilmington’s homicide victims for 2014.

The shooting drew urgent appeals from investigators for witnesses and was cited by community commentators as emblematic of that summer’s surge in gun violence.

If anyone saw activity on East 22nd Street that night or has information about Otis Saunders’s death, please share what is known with investigators.