On July 6, 2014, just before 2:30 a.m., 31-year-old Quinton Hill answered a knock at the door of his Fourth Avenue South home in Columbus, Mississippi. As he went to answer, someone shot him through the closed door, the bullet striking his face at point-blank range. The shooter then forced entry, robbed a second man who had been asleep on the living room couch, took the wallets of both men and left with an undisclosed sum; it is not known whether the assailant departed on foot or by vehicle.

Hill was taken first to Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle and then airlifted to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, where he died of his wounds on July 8, 2014. He had been a longtime chef at the Front Door/Back Door Restaurant and left behind an infant daughter; former colleagues held a fundraiser for his family.

The intruder was described as a Black male whose face was covered by a shirt or towel. No arrests have been publicly announced and the killer’s identity remains unknown. Does anyone have information that could help solve this case?