Derrion Estes, a 23-year-old Black man known to friends and family as BG, was found shot to death in an alley on the 1600 block of West 5th Avenue in Gary, Indiana, on June 26, 2014. A 17-year-old, Daven James, was found nearby with a fatal gunshot wound to the head; both deaths were treated as homicides.

Investigators later focused on a suspect named Carl Le’Ellis Blount. Court records indicate prosecutors believed Blount was responsible for the killings of Estes and James, but he was not tried separately for those murders. After Blount was arrested and charged in the killing of Gary police patrolman Jeffrey Westerfield in early July 2014, prosecutors reached a plea agreement in which they did not file formal murder charges against him for Estes and James. Blount pleaded guilty to Westerfield’s murder and received life without parole.

Does anyone have information about Derrion’s life, movements that day, or witnesses who saw activity on West 5th Avenue on June 26, 2014?