Antonio Vernon Harper, a 20-year-old Black man, was killed in north Minneapolis on November 6, 2023. Around 4:45 p.m. officers responding to multiple 911 calls found Harper behind a house in the 3300 block of Dupont Avenue North, lying face down with multiple gunshot wounds to his upper torso. He was taken to North Memorial Health Hospital but died of a gunshot wound to the chest; the Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide.

Investigators say the shooting was a targeted ambush tied to gang conflict. Harper was with two others when three masked assailants stepped out of a blue sedan and fired with three separate 9mm handguns. The vehicle, later identified as a stolen blue Toyota Camry, fled the scene. Witness accounts and a friend linked the groups involved to the Highs and rival Lowz street gang.

Surveillance footage and cellphone data helped identify an 18-year-old from Robbinsdale, Jahon Ronnell Lynch, as a primary suspect. Video showed him driving the stolen Camry about an hour before the shooting; his location data placed him near the crime, and police later arrested him after stopping the vehicle two days after the killing. Lynch was charged with second-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder; he was booked into jail awaiting court.

Did anyone in the community have contact with Harper that afternoon or recall seeing the blue Camry in the neighborhood?