In the early hours of August 3, 2021, a confrontation inside a north Minneapolis home on the 2300 block of Dupont Avenue North ended when 21-year-old Boris Lusambo Likuwa was shot in the chest. Officers found Likuwa without a pulse; he was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead at 12:28 AM. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide due to a gunshot wound.

Investigators arrested 21-year-old Mozell Jones on August 19, 2021, after a friend and roommate of Likuwa—who was present during the incident—told police he heard Jones and Likuwa talking, then a single gunshot, and saw Jones flee in a vehicle. Jones was charged with second-degree murder and illegal possession of a firearm.

The prosecution’s key witness died before testifying, and in March 2022 the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office dropped the charges because the state said it could not prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt without that testimony. No one has been held legally responsible for Likuwa’s death. Does anyone have information about what happened that night or about Boris’s life in Minneapolis?