On the evening of March 31, 2016, a burst of gunfire in the Shively area of Louisville, Kentucky, left 20-year-old Kamal Lawson and his 26-year-old cousin Jermaine Simmons dead in a white car on Appleton Lane. A neighbor heard two shots and saw the car with its windshield wipers still moving; emergency responders pronounced both men dead at the scene. Detectives said the men had arranged to meet suspects for a marijuana transaction in a parking lot outside an apartment belonging to one of the suspects’ mothers.

Within days authorities arrested two 18-year-olds, Marquice Hamilton and Brian Hutchings, on charges that included two counts of murder, two counts of robbery, and tampering with physical evidence. Police said at least one suspect knew the victims beforehand. Lawson was remembered by family and community members as a strong but quiet, likeable and smart young man who had ushered at West End Baptist Church and played football at Central High School.

If anyone knew Kamal Lawson, his movements that day, or has information about the meeting on Appleton Lane, please share what is known.