On May 11, 2017, Roderick Evans, a 40-year-old Black man, was shot and killed while gardening with his aunt in the 3700 block of North 6th Street in Minneapolis. A blue minivan drove up and someone wearing a ski mask fired into the group; Evans was struck in the chest, found bleeding but breathing, and died at the scene.

Deputies in the area pursued and stopped the fleeing van. Three people were inside; two were taken into custody at the vehicle and a third fled but was captured after a K-9-assisted perimeter search. Several handguns were recovered from the van. The driver, 20-year-old Isaiah Rakeem Wallace, was charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder; another passenger was a juvenile. Witnesses and physical evidence identified Stevevontae D. Champion, known as Tay Tay, as the masked shooter. DNA from the ski mask and a gun found in the vehicle linked Champion to the killing, and cellphone records placed him at the scene. Champion later pleaded guilty to second-degree intentional murder and prosecutors said they would seek a maximum sentence of 32 ½ years. No motive has been publicly released.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see the blue minivan or the masked shooter that afternoon?