Zekei Tyequaz Johnson was 18 when he was shot to death on the evening of August 10, 2013, in the parking lot of the Richmond Inn and Suites off Midlothian Turnpike in Richmond, Virginia. He was Black and preparing to leave for college; family and community members remembered him as a vibrant, promising young man.

More than 300 people attended a vigil at Worship & Praise Deliverance Church on East Laburnum Avenue to honor Johnson. Richmond police identified 26-year-old Floyd E. Taylor as a person of interest; Taylor later turned himself in to the U.S. Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force and was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Reports do not provide a clear account of the final outcome of the investigation into Johnson’s homicide or whether Taylor or anyone else was charged with or convicted of the killing. If anyone knew Zekei or has information about what happened that night, please come forward.