Aaron Jerome Williams Jr., 22, was fatally shot while sitting in a parked blue van on Tuesday afternoon, May 30, 2017, in the Jordan neighborhood of North Minneapolis. The shooting happened around 2:30 p.m. near 30th Avenue North and Irving Avenue North. Witnesses reported a man exiting a white truck, possibly a Jeep, and getting into the passenger seat of Williams’ van shortly before a gunshot; the white truck then fled the scene driven by another person. Williams was taken to North Memorial Medical Center and died a few hours later from a gunshot wound to the head.

Investigators pursued several lines, including that a drug deal may have gone wrong and that Williams might have been targeted for cooperating with police about the May shooting of 26-year-old Iesha L. Wiley. Despite eyewitness accounts and those leads, no immediate arrests were announced and the case went unresolved for years. If anyone knew Aaron, saw a white truck near 30th and Irving that afternoon, or has information about who entered the van, please share what was seen or heard.