Leon Charles Reimers was 32 when he was shot and killed on June 19, 2017, in Aurora, Colorado. Standing over seven feet tall and known to friends as Tree, he was remembered as a devoted father, son, and brother with passions for cooking, drawing, and music.

Reimers was in the driveway of a home on South Ouray Street when he was shot in the neck. He was taken to a local hospital but did not survive. Police quickly developed a description of the shooter and arrested 34-year-old Philip K. Wilson on an RTD bus a short distance from the scene; Wilson was charged with first-degree murder in connection with Reimers’s death.

The community and Reimers’s family mourned the loss of a man described as generous and loving. If anyone knew Leon, his routines, or saw activity near South Ouray Street on the night of June 19, 2017, please come forward with information.