Ausineese Aubin Dufault was 16 when he was found shot to death in Duluth’s Lincoln Park neighborhood on May 27, 2019. Officers responded about 2:47 a.m. to the 2100 block of West 3rd Street after a report of gunshots; Dufault died of a gunshot wound at the scene. He was born May 30, 2002, to Richard Hearle Jr. and Jennifer Dufault.

In the weeks before his death Dufault had been charged in an April 2019 shooting in which a female acquaintance was grazed in the head as she left an apartment; he faced counts of Aggravated First Degree Robbery and Second Degree Assault and was out on bond when he died. No arrests have been announced in connection with Dufault’s killing, and police have not released suspects or a motive while saying they do not believe the public is at risk.

If anyone in Duluth remembers seeing activity near West 3rd Street around that time or has information about the shooting, please come forward.