Raymonte Conner

Raymonte Connor, 36, a Black man from St. Louis, Missouri, was discovered late Sunday night, December 2, 2007, lying in an alley in the 5200 block of Highland Avenue with a gunshot wound to the head. When officers and homicide detectives arrived, they found he had no identification on him, leaving investigators to piece together who he was and what had brought him to that back-lane stretch of the North Side.

In the hours after the shooting, neighbors told police they heard a single gunsh ...