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Fourteen-year-old Yore Thour Jieng was shot in a drive-by while riding as a passenger in a borrowed car in Des Moines on the evening of October 24, 2016. The vehicle was struck at a stoplight at 12th Street and Keosauqua Way; a bullet entered through the rear windshield and hit Yore in the head. His older sister drove him to Iowa Methodist Medical Center, where he died five days later on October 29, 2016.

Yore was a freshman at Roosevelt High School. Family remembered him as social and friendly, a fan of basketball and video games; he and his family had immigrated from Sudan in 2002. Investigators recovered more than five shell casings at the scene and opened a homicide investigation, but no arrests have been made and police have not confirmed a motive. Some family members believe the shooting may have been mistaken identity because the car was borrowed.

Did anyone see the vehicle or the shooters near 12th and Keosauqua Way that night, or have information about who would target that car?