On the evening of March 5, 2009, 66-year-old Lester Marvin Walton Sr. was shot through a living-room window while visiting his 92-year-old mother’s home on Ashland Avenue in Knoxville. He was watching a basketball game with his wife when a bullet struck his neck, severing an artery; he was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center and died of the wound. At least four rounds struck the house that night.

Investigators concluded the shooting was a drive-by and a case of mistaken identity linked to retaliation for an earlier shooting. A burgundy or maroon Chevrolet Astro or GMC van was seen leaving the area around the time of the attack. The Knoxville Police Department re-interviewed witnesses and spoke with people in prisons during the probe, but the case later went cold and no arrests or publicly identified suspects have been announced.

Did anyone in Knoxville have information about that van or the people responsible for the March 5, 2009 drive-by?