Trent Pierce, 23, was found injured near West Bayaud Avenue and South Clay Street in Denver on the evening of December 14, 1985. First responders initially thought he’d been struck in an auto-pedestrian accident, and he was taken to a local hospital. Hospital staff then discovered gunshot wounds; Pierce died of those injuries.

The Denver Police Department reclassified the case as a homicide and investigated how Pierce came to be on the street, but details about the circumstances of the shooting are scarce. The investigation later went cold; no arrests or public suspect identifications have been announced. Family and friends continue to seek answers about the violent end to a young life.

Did anyone in the Denver area at the time see or hear anything that might help explain what happened that night?