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On the evening of February 23, 2016, a burst of gunfire in a Cedar Rapids, Iowa neighborhood left 25-year-old Joseph Perkins Jr. dead. Perkins, a Black man from Chicago, was one of two people shot; the other victim survived and was hospitalized. Both were found by responding Cedar Rapids police and taken to a local hospital, where Perkins succumbed to his wounds.

In the days after the shooting, Perkins’s family issued a statement mourning him as a beloved son and pleading for an end to gun violence.

If anyone saw or heard anything in that Cedar Rapids neighborhood on the night of February 23, 2016, please share information that could help answer what happened.