15 homicide victims in 2017, three cases remain unsolved

Esmail Sharifi was out of the game.
So when the 36-year-old father was shot while seated in the passenger side of a tow truck in a west-end parking lot in the dead of summer, police were puzzled.
Once shot, just after 9 p.m. on July 31, Sharifi stumbled toward the patio of the Big Rig Kitchen and Brewery on Iris Street, looking for help. He was pronounced dead in hospital. Police certainly knew Sharifi from his days as a cocaine dealer and addict. He had been arrested as part of a sweep cal