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On a Sunday afternoon in August 2019, 29-year-old Isiah Lamarr Smith, a Black man, was found dead inside an apartment building on the 1900 block of First Avenue South in Minneapolis. The medical examiner determined multiple gunshot wounds were the cause of death.

Investigators quickly focused on a known acquaintance, Derrick Dwayne Blanton, who was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. Police say the men had an ongoing dispute over a woman with whom Smith had a child. According to the complaint, Smith went to his ex-girlfriend’s apartment where a fight broke out between him and Blanton; witnesses reported hearing gunfire and seeing two men and a child flee in a black Dodge Charger. Blanton later told police he had shot Smith after the altercation.

Does anyone in Minneapolis remember the apartment or the black Dodge Charger that left the scene that afternoon?