In the early morning of June 15, 2005, Joshua Jerome Delaney, 22, was found shot to death in his white Jeep Cherokee after it had crashed into a wooden fence in the 4500 block of London Lane in Colorado Springs. He had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. Joshua was engaged and the father of a young daughter, and he was days shy of his 23rd birthday.

Investigators say Joshua had been at the Platinum 25 nightclub earlier that night and that witnesses reported his Jeep parked beside a smaller, dark-colored car on London Lane shortly before the shooting, leading to the theory the shooter may have been in that second vehicle. Police were dispatched at 12:42 AM after a report of a shooting near London Lane and Chelton Road.

A suspect, Carlos Ford-Vigil, was arrested in connection with the killing, but murder charges were later dropped after a key witness fled the state and refused to testify and other witnesses were judged unreliable. The family was told some evidence was accidentally destroyed by the police department. The suspect was later arrested, convicted, and imprisoned for two other homicides, but no one has been formally held accountable for Joshua’s death and the case remains cold.

If anyone knew Joshua, was at Platinum 25 that night, or saw vehicles on London Lane around 12:30–1:00 AM on June 15, 2005, please come forward with information.