On the evening of April 7, 2020, 20-year-old Roderick Matthews was found on Emerald Drive in Savannah, Georgia, with a gunshot wound after a ShotSpotter alert at about 7:30 p.m. Officers and medical personnel rendered aid but Matthews died at the scene. Police said they did not believe the shooting was random and opened a homicide investigation.

Investigators identified 21-year-old Kelvin Waye as a suspect and arrested him in Port Wentworth on May 13, 2020; he was charged with murder and held at the Chatham County Detention Center. At trial in February 2023 a jury acquitted Waye. Prosecutors later cited investigative and evidentiary issues, the death of an eyewitness, and a lack of physical evidence — no murder weapon, ballistics, fingerprints, or DNA — as obstacles in the case. Matthews’s mother, Tanya Bostick, said the family felt denied justice and hoped for new information.

Does anyone have information about Roderick Matthews or the events on Emerald Drive that evening?