Dujawn Samuel McDaniel Foster III was 21 and from Cincinnati. Known to friends and family as Sam, he worked two jobs and had completed a career training program with Messer Construction about a year before his death. On the night of Thursday, March 28, 2024, Foster attended a large house party at a short-term rental on the 200 block of Fosdick Street in Corryville. Just before 11 p.m., shots were fired inside the home; dozens of people fled into the street. When police arrived, Foster had been shot and Cincinnati Fire Department personnel performed life-saving measures, but he died at the scene. A 16-year-old male was also shot in the arm and taken to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in stable condition.

Police say everyone involved fled before officers arrived. Investigators later identified and arrested 20-year-old Jontatum Ferguson on April 18, 2024, charging him with Foster’s murder; prosecutors allege Ferguson attempted to rob multiple people at the party and shot Foster during an altercation. A grand jury indicted Ferguson in late April on five felony counts including aggravated murder and aggravated robbery, and bond was set at $750,000. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the Homicide Unit at 513-352-3542.

If anyone attended that party or has information about what happened on Fosdick Street that night, can you help investigators?