Lawrence Chapman, 36, was found shot to death on February 2, 2015, near Kathryn Avenue and Ortiz Drive in southeast Albuquerque. Officers responding to reports of a suspicious death discovered Chapman’s body with apparent gunshot wounds. APD released photos of a man identified as a person of interest and asked the public for help locating him.

On February 7, 2015, police arrested 35-year-old Demetrius Wright in connection with Chapman’s murder and charged him with an open count of murder. Detectives said they identified Wright after interviewing a man who had initially been considered a person of interest. Chapman’s killing was one of four homicides in Albuquerque that weekend and part of a broader rise in violent crime in the city between October 2012 and December 2017.

Did anyone in the area of Kathryn Avenue and Ortiz Drive or the 7-11 at San Mateo and Kathryn see anything that weekend?