In the autumn of 2016 a vacant house on Greenwell Springs Road in Baton Rouge yielded a grim discovery. A Friday morning anonymous call led police to a residence where officers found a man dead of at least one gunshot wound. By the following Monday the victim had been identified as 43-year-old Thomas Harris, believed to have been homeless at the time.

The Baton Rouge Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit opened a homicide investigation but, in the immediate aftermath, detectives could not determine a motive or identify any suspects. The anonymous tip that prompted the response is the last known lead tied to who might have been responsible.

The case has since grown cold and the circumstances of Harris’s final hours remain unresolved. If anyone knew Thomas Harris, saw activity at that vacant house in autumn 2016, or has information about the shooting, please come forward.