On October 15, 2015, at about 7 p.m., 23-year-old Emmett L. Wilson-Shaw was shot while walking with friends across the Earl Street Bridge over Phalen Boulevard in Saint Paul’s Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene after a car approached and shots were fired. He was Black and his family said he had been trying to leave a violent life behind; his father said Emmett was tired of the constant conflict. The family had already suffered another homicide when Emmett’s 15-year-old brother was murdered in 2008.

Investigators treated the attack as a drive-by shooting tied to street-gang rivalry. Within a week police arrested two men. The criminal complaint says Dametrius Ratheal Adrian Moore admitted driving the vehicle and that a passenger, Dearies C. Collins, fired multiple shots after the car passed, turned around, and slowed; Moore was charged with second-degree murder and Collins was accused of being the gunman. Does anyone have information about Emmett’s life on the East Side or about that evening that could help shed light on what happened?