Allen Lorin Williams was 28 and had just earned a master’s degree in education from Indiana University Northwest when he was fatally shot on the night of August 17, 2017. He had recently been hired as dean of students at a local school and was out with friends celebrating. While stopped at a red light at U.S. 20 and Utah Street in the Aetna neighborhood of Gary, his white Dodge Challenger was fired on; he suffered multiple gunshot wounds and later died at a hospital in Chicago.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Department opened a homicide investigation and asked the public for help, noting Williams may have visited the Buzz Box lounge and Dirtty’s Jazz & Blues Club earlier that evening. Two years after the shooting investigators were still seeking leads; as of the last reports no arrests or public suspect identifications had been announced.

Did anyone who knew Allen or was in that neighborhood on August 17, 2017, see or hear anything that could help the investigation?