On the evening of August 12, 2015, a burst of gunfire in Cambridge, Massachusetts, killed 31-year-old Rasaun Nichols, a Black / African American man. Nichols was a passenger in a vehicle leaving the Newtowne Court area near Windsor and Main Streets at about 8:41 p.m. Multiple rounds struck the car — investigators later counted between five and eight bullet holes. The driver managed to speed away roughly half a mile and stopped near the Kendall Square MBTA station to get help. Nichols was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead from his gunshot wounds.

Investigators from the Cambridge Police Department, Massachusetts State Police and the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office appealed to the public for information. On August 24, 2015, authorities arrested 26-year-old Rooslin Altidor of Medford and charged him with Nichols’s murder; he was arraigned in Cambridge District Court and held without bail. Few other publicly reported details about motive or circumstance were provided in the immediate aftermath.

If anyone knew Rasaun, saw the shooting, or has information that wasn’t reported, please share what is known with investigators.