Akeem Laurel, 27, was found dead in a lane off West 38th Street in Savannah, Georgia, after a passerby discovered his body in the early morning hours of late summer 2011. The Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department opened a homicide investigation and an autopsy was performed; the autopsy result was not released publicly. Investigators noted they had not found an immediate connection between Laurel’s death and a separate fatal shooting that occurred a few blocks away around the same time, in which an arrest was made.

There is a discrepancy about the exact date of death: a department news release dated September 30, 2011, said the body was found the previous Friday (September 23, 2011), while a memorial obituary published a year later gave September 16, 2011, as the date of death. In the years since, no public announcements of arrests or suspect identifications have been made and the case appears to be unsolved.

If anyone knew Akeem, witnessed activity near West 38th Street in mid-September 2011, or has information that could help, please share what is known with the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department.