On April 17, 1999, Richard Stephen Elliott, a 42-year-old computer engineer, was shot and killed outside Alfalfa’s Market on East 11th Avenue in Denver after finishing grocery shopping with his five-year-old daughter. Elliott had placed the groceries in his car and was entering the driver’s side when an unknown man approached and fired a single shot that killed him instantly. The daughter witnessed the shooting but was physically unharmed.

Witnesses described the shooter as a man with his hair in a ponytail wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt, dark nylon sweatpants, and red, white, and black athletic shoes; he walked away into the Capitol Hill neighborhood carrying a medium-sized duffel bag into which he calmly placed a shotgun. Nothing was taken from Elliott, and investigators confiscated his computer and business papers while questioning friends and family, but no clear motive or suspect ever emerged. No arrests have been announced and the case remains unsolved.

Did anyone see the man leaving the market area that evening or remember someone matching that description in the neighborhood afterward?