Shamere Melvin was 17 when he was found dead on the sidewalk in the 300 block of North Clinton Avenue in Trenton, New Jersey, on the evening of December 18, 2013. The shooting occurred around 8:30 p.m.; Melvin had sustained a single gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators treated the killing as the result of a planned robbery. Eyewitnesses identified 16-year-old Alberto Choppy Lopez as the person who confronted and shot Melvin, and the theft of marijuana was reported as the apparent motive. At the victim’s sentencing hearing the victim’s mother described her son as the glue that held the family together.

Does anyone who lived in that neighborhood in 2013 remember hearing or seeing anything that night, or know Shamere’s routine and the people he associated with?