In the spring of 2014 a wave of violence hit Seattle’s Central District. One of the victims was 20-year-old Deszaun Smallwood, a Black man who was shot multiple times and killed on April 24. The shooting occurred just before 6:45 p.m. in the Leschi neighborhood, in the 500 block of 28th Avenue South; Smallwood died at the scene in front of a crowd of onlookers.

The fatal encounter followed an earlier altercation that day at Flo Ware Park, two blocks away. That morning a fight involved Lorenzo Pratt, 25, and a friend of Smallwood’s. Smallwood initially tried to de-escalate, but the conflict escalated and Pratt withdrew. Investigators said many of the roughly fifteen eyewitnesses did not cooperate, a silence attributed to fear of gang retaliation.

Police later identified Lorenzo Pratt as the primary suspect and sought him in connection with the homicide. Did anyone in the Leschi or Flo Ware Park area see something that could still help this investigation?