Darrell Deshay Lanier was 22 and walking home from his cousin’s house on the morning of Tuesday, November 1, 2016, when gunfire erupted in the 400 block of Rhey Street, three blocks from his home. He was found shot multiple times and taken to UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital, where he underwent two surgeries but died in the early hours of Friday, November 4, 2016. His death was ruled a homicide.

Police recovered about a dozen spent shell casings in an alley behind the 1800 block of Franklin Street and concluded the attack appeared to involve a single firearm and to have been deliberate rather than random. No suspects or arrests have been publicly identified. Family members, including the aunt who raised him, believe he was being watched and targeted because attackers intended to threaten his friends.

Did anyone in the Waterloo area see or hear anything that morning that could help investigators?