Cdario Laparker Burns was 25 when he was fatally shot in a North Las Vegas neighborhood on the evening of August 24, 2014. Authorities found him with fatal wounds after gunfire in the area; he was pronounced dead soon after. Burns was a U.S. Air Force veteran and is remembered in an obituary as a father, a son, and a brother.

Police say the shooting occurred during an altercation. Witnesses reported seeing a young male, described as in his early twenties and dressed in dark clothing, flee the scene immediately after the shots. The North Las Vegas Police Department conducted numerous interviews and reviewed nearby surveillance footage as part of the investigation.

Investigators later identified a suspect and took a 23-year-old male with a prior criminal record into custody; he was charged with Burns’s murder. Anyone who knew Burns or who has information about the shooting is asked to come forward.