Rahssan Wilson, a 32-year-old Black man, was fatally shot in Fargo, North Dakota, on the afternoon of December 4, 2024. The shooting happened around noon at the Summers at Osgood Apartment complex in the 4500 block of 47th Street South. Witnesses and first responders provided immediate first aid; Wilson was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

Investigators identified 30-year-old Steven Burrell, an acquaintance of Wilson’s, as a suspect; police said the two knew each other and had been in contact moments before the shooting. Burrell fled North Dakota, prompting a multi-state search that tracked his vehicle through the Midwest. He was arrested at a gas station in Dubuque, Iowa, about 36 hours after the homicide. A second suspect, 24-year-old Patrick Martin of Chicago, was later arrested. Court documents say Burrell believed Wilson had robbed him and recruited Martin to help steal more than $10,000 in retaliation. According to charging papers, both men followed Wilson into the building, a fight between Burrell and Wilson broke out on a stairway, and both Martin and Burrell fired one round each at Wilson; an autopsy found either shot could have been fatal.

Both men were charged in Cass County with murder and conspiracy to commit robbery. Does anyone have information about Wilson’s movements that day or the people he was with at the Summers at Osgood complex?