Seventeen-year-old Mark Moody Jr. was shot and killed on the evening of Friday, July 11, 2008, on Weber Avenue on Buffalo’s east side. The slaying made Moody the city’s 22nd homicide of 2008 and came during a week that saw four homicides in seven days, part of a summer surge in gun violence that was affecting many young people.

Mark was only weeks away from his eighteenth birthday. Friends and family remembered him as a sweetheart and expressed disbelief and grief; one friend said they had seen him at an anti-violence block party the Saturday before he was killed.

Does anyone who knew Mark or who was on Weber Avenue that night have information that could shed light on what happened?