Robert Robby Baptista was 21 when he was fatally shot in the chest inside a friend’s apartment on Sisson Street in Pawtucket on the evening of Saturday, November 12, 2016. He had been recently released from prison in November 2016 and was trying to rebuild his life, but law enforcement says he had made several enemies and earlier that year had been arrested after a road rage incident where gunfire was exchanged.

Investigators believe Baptista may have been ambushed inside the residence. Witnesses reported seeing multiple people fleeing the scene, and family members described the killing as possibly a vendetta. Detectives developed several potential suspects because of his past connections, but by the time the case went cold no one had been definitively identified or arrested for the murder.

Two years later, in November 2018, two men reportedly threatened a friend of Baptista’s for wearing a sweatshirt with his picture and told him he would end up like Robby before shooting him; those men were later sentenced for that assault but were not charged in Baptista’s homicide. Does anyone have information about who entered the Sisson Street apartment that night or about links between the 2016 killing and later threats?