Fitz V Bariffe, 68, was found shot to death in his home on October 28, 2012, in the Princeton Park neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. He was discovered in his kitchen after an intruder broke through the front door late that night. Bariffe had retired from the Chicago Transit Authority and moved into a once-vacant house in 2010 with plans to renovate it.

Despite installing a metal fence and an alarm system and warning he wasn’t bothering anyone, Bariffe’s family had worried about people loitering, drinking, and using drugs near the property. Neighbors remembered him as friendly and helpful, often shoveling snow or mowing lawns for elderly residents. His killing became Chicago’s 435th homicide of 2012, a year marked by a sharp rise in murders tied in part to shifting gang dynamics and strains on police resources.

Does anyone in Princeton Park remember seeing or hearing anything unusual around Bariffe’s home on the night of October 28, 2012?