Philip Charles Borer Nelson, a 31-year-old student advisor at the High School for Recording Arts and father of four, was shot and killed in an apartment in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, in the early morning of April 20, 2017. He was found behind a couch with multiple gunshot wounds after having visited the apartment around 3:30 a.m. The apartment belonged to his ex-girlfriend.

The ex-girlfriend called a man she knew as Ox, later identified as 41-year-old Phillip Leron Miller, who arrived just before 4 a.m. She reported hearing a confrontation between two men followed by multiple gunshots. Investigators tied Miller to the scene with surveillance footage and fingerprints on a soda bottle he brought into the apartment. A Glock .40 caliber handgun matching the weapon used was recovered from a nearby gas station trash can. A warrant was issued charging Miller with second-degree murder; he fled and was considered armed and dangerous until his arrest by the FBI Violent Crimes Fugitive Task Force in Gurnee, Illinois on July 21, 2017.

If anyone knew Philip, his movements that night, or has additional information about the events at the apartment, please share what was seen or heard.