On the evening of March 8, 2014, 23-year-old Anthony Lee Fairbanks was found against a snowbank on the 2700 block of Longfellow Avenue South in Minneapolis, having been shot multiple times. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled the manner of death a homicide, with a gunshot wound to the head listed as the cause. Witnesses reported hearing multiple gunshots shortly before 10 p.m.

Investigators traced Fairbanks’s last known movements to his mother’s home, where he was overheard on a phone call saying he would come to a meeting alone. Phone records show his final call was with a woman identified as Black, later named Maureen Ndidiamaka Onyelobi, who had supplied him heroin. Surveillance footage from a Plymouth storage facility recorded Onyelobi retrieving a 9mm handgun the night of the murder and returning it the following day; ballistics later matched that gun to casings at the scene. A dark-colored van with a white stripe and cargo top was seen leaving the area and matched Onyelobi’s vehicle description. She was arrested on an unrelated drug charge three days later and observed trying to hide a storage-locker key while in custody.

The case raises questions about who arranged the meeting Fairbanks attended and how the storage-locker evidence connects to activity the night of the shooting. Anyone with information about Fairbanks’s movements that evening or the van seen fleeing the scene is asked to come forward.