On January 5, 2012, Lionel Lane, a 51-year-old African American man from Wheaton, Illinois, was fatally shot in the face while in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death a homicide.

Lane’s killing remains without public resolution. There is no record of an arrest, no named person of interest, and no one has been publicly identified in connection with the shooting.

If anyone in the Austin neighborhood or from Wheaton remembers Lionel Lane or has information about the January 5, 2012 shooting, please come forward and share what you know.