On the evening of February 15, 2022, Lorenzo Edward Ellison-Jordan, a 22-year-old Black man from St. Paul, was found in an alley in the 3600 block of North 4th Street in Minneapolis after being shot multiple times. Police arrived about 8:30 p.m.; officers rendered aid until paramedics took over, but Ellison-Jordan was pronounced dead at the scene. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled the cause of death multiple gunshot wounds and classified it a homicide.

Authorities publicly identified Ellison-Jordan in the days after the shooting. The Minneapolis Police Department opened an investigation, but the case file released in these early reports did not include a motive or any named suspects, and no arrests had been announced. Few details about what led to the shooting have been made public.

Does anyone have information about who Lorenzo spent time with that night or about activity in the North 4th Street area that evening?