Quadir Lampkin was just 19 years old when he was fatally shot inside a car in 2011.
The killing remains unsolved.
But the case remains open and active, according to Capt. Pat Snyder, who heads the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office Major Crimes Unit.
Lampkin, who was known as Quack, was heading home from a party at the Cologne Firehouse in Hamilton Township just after midnight May 28, 2011.
Habibah Abdullah was driving down the White Horse Pike in Galloway Township heading home to Atlantic City when someone opened fire.
Abduallah, then 21, was wounded. Lampkin didn't make it.
A little more than 48 hours earlier, a shootout was recorded on video surveillance at Stanley Holmes Village, near where Lampkin lived. Officials never commented on whether those two incidents may have been related.
"It is clear that this was not a random act of violence," then-Atlantic County Prosecutor Ted Housel said at the time. "People need to come forward and tell the truth."
But, it seems, no one still has.
Ronda Lampkin has long called for someone to share what they know about who killed her son.
“I don’t want another mother or father to feel like I feel,” she previously said. “People need to speak up. It’s not snitching, it’s called saving a life.”
Until investigators get concrete evidence, it doesn't matter what the street knows.
"We only get one chance," Snyder said of prosecuting a case. "We can't base charging on hearsay or uncorroborated information coming from the streets.
"Witness intimidation is a real thing and has a real impact on successful prosecutions," he told BreakingAC. "Unfortunately, this impacts many of our cases."
Lampkin grew up in Atlantic City and worked for then-Councilman Marty Small's unsuccessful mayoral campaign.
He attended the Boys and Girls Club.
"This comes through my email every year since my son's passing," Ronda Lampkin wrote on a post sharing her son's obituary.
"It makes my stomach turn," she wrote. "Praying for the families that have to endure this pain. It’s everlasting. Asking Allah to continue to carry us all."
Anyone with information about Quadir Lampkin's killing can call Major Crimes at 609-909-7666 or go to the Prosecutor's Office website at http://www.acpo.org/tips.html and provide information by completing the form anonymously on the “Submit a Tip” page.
