Nickalas Lee was 17 when he was murdered in the early morning hours of June 15, 2017, in Roanoke, Virginia. Two weeks after graduating high school, Nickalas — known to family as Nick and remembered for his love of music, drawing, and making people laugh — was found with multiple gunshot wounds at the Countryside Estates apartment complex on Tuckawana Circle NW. He was taken to a nearby hospital but died about an hour later.

Law enforcement accounts say members of the Rollin’ 30s Crips brought Nickalas to the complex that night after their leader, Sean Denzel Guerrant, ordered him to kill a man identified as D.F. Rather than carry out that order, Nickalas reportedly warned the intended victim, who escaped. After the target fled, Demonte Rashod Mack allegedly forced Nickalas to surrender his weapon to Trayvone Raycron Kasey, and then Kasey and Mack chased and shot Nickalas twice in the back.

Nickalas’s father, Darrell Lee, made a public plea against the stop snitching culture that prosecutors and family say contributed to the killing. Does anyone have information about Nickalas, his movements that night, or connections to this case?