It was eight years ago Tuesday that Scott Corwin was gunned down at Bull and Gordon streets.

The 27-year-old Army captain and his girlfriend, Mindy Jo Lemore, were walking home from a night out. They had made it to Monterey Square when, at about 4 a.m., two gunshots were fired and Corwin fell fatally wounded.

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Lemore, according to earlier reports, was too traumatized to tell who fired those shots. A physician who lived nearby rushed outside to help Corwin until emergency responders arrived, but he later died at Memorial.

Scott’s father, 60-year-old Greg Corwin, usually makes it to Savannah on the anniversary of his son’s death to put the case back in the public eye. But after eight years and no answers, he’s discouraged.

“It seems my efforts don’t do any good anyway,” he said by telephone from Pittsburgh on Wednesday. “… There’s something terribly wrong with this case, and I can’t get to the bottom of it.”

Greg Corwin said he has gone to great lengths to find justice for his son — even hiring a private investigator — but feels stonewalled at every end.

Savannah-Chatham police Sgt. Robert Gavin, a detective in the department’s violent crimes division, said there is activity on the investigation, and that it does take time. He said it would be inappropriate to elaborate on specifics.

“The case is not cold while we are actively working a lead in the case,” Gavin said. “Information released can jeopardize what is in progress.”

Police spokesman Julian Miller said that even after such a long time, tips from the public could help break the case.

“We’re still trying to get information on it,” he said. “Anybody who knows anything, we need them to call Crimestoppers or Violent Crimes. Somebody may have seen something and didn’t think it was significant, but it might be significant to pull things together.”

He may not have been able to come to Monterey Square this year — his third grandchild had just been born in Chicago — but Greg Corwin said he’ll keep looking for answers “as long as I have a breath in me.”

Corwin said he hopes the people of Savannah remember his son for the person he was.

Scott graduated from West Point and served as a paratrooper in Kosovo. Then he got a master’s degree in engineering management, but instead of entering the private sector decided to stay in the Army. He was assigned to the 92nd Engineer Battalion at Fort Stewart and was due for deployment to Iraq before he was murdered five years to the day after he graduated West Point.

Scott loved Savannah, his father said, living off Monterey Square near where he was shot, and helping those around him.

“Savannah lost a son, too,” Corwin said. “… Scotty was a kid of Savannah, too. He was a citizen and served everyone there whether they know it or not.”

He said he wished the residents of Savannah had the chance to get to know Scott as people did in the soldier’s hometown of Darien, Ill. Scott was buried there with full military honors. In November, his high school, Hinsdale South, inducted the slain Army officer into its hall of fame.

Greg Corwin said the students gathered in the gym were loud — chatting excitedly because they were out of class — until Scott’s sister Allison took the microphone.

“When Scotty’s sister came up and gave the speech, you heard a pin drop in that place,” he said, choking up. “That was quite a day for us. That will be there long after we’re gone.” A cash reward of as much as $15,000 is available anonymously through Crimestoppers for information leading to an arrest in the case. Catherine Neal of Crimestoppers said that the organization normally pays as much as $2,500, but Scott’s family and friends pledged the additional money.

Greg Corwin said he hopes the right person will still come forward and help break the case.

“Somebody’s been walking around for eight years with the freedom Scotty fought for, and that shouldn’t happen,” he said. “That’s the kicker.”

Police are asking anyone with any information on the killing of Scott Corwin to call Crimestoppers at 912-234-2020 or text CRIMES (274637) and include “cstop2020” in the body type along with the tip. People may also go to savannahchathamcrimestoppers.org. Tipsters remain anonymous, and award money given for information leading to an arrest is delivered anonymously as well.

Police are investigating a fatal hit-and-run in Boone County that left a teenager dead. It happened on River Road in Hebron.

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Investigators say Daniel Gose, 26, was behind the wheel when he hit and killed John Pernell, 18, early Sunday morning.

Officials say Gose did not stop after hitting the teenager. He has been charged with manslaughter, DUI, leaving the scene of an accident and driving with one headlight.

A body was found burnt beyond recognition early Saturday morning on the East Side.

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A passerby discovered the body still on fire around 2:30 a.m. in the brush off Schrader Road near Rigsby Avenue, said Detective Jesse Salame of the San Antonio Police Department. The fire department responded and extinguished the body. Police are investigating the scene as a homicide.

The age and gender of the person is difficult to determine because of the burns, but it appears to be a woman, Salame said.

MISHAWAKA, Ind. — A convicted murderer freed from prison two years ago gunned down his brother during an argument outside his brother’s northwest Indiana home early Saturday, then chased his sister-in-law inside and killed her while her terrified children listened, authorities said.

Steven Clippenger, 41, of South Bend, apparently killed Matthew and Lisa Clippenger after he became angry when Matthew confiscated his handgun hours earlier at the home, James Taylor, a St. Joseph County Metro Homicide investigator, said in an affidavit. He got another handgun from an acquaintance, Jenifer Leveque, returned to his brother’s home and killed the couple before fleeing with Leveque in a pickup truck, Taylor said. They were arrested a short time later driving away from Steven Clippenger’s home.

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Steven Clippenger is charged with two counts of murder as well as a weapons charge in the slayings. Leveque, 40, is charged with assisting a criminal and giving a handgun to a felon, the St. Joseph County Prosecutor’s Office said. Clippenger was being held without bond, and Leveque’s bond was set at $60,000. It wasn’t immediately clear if either had an attorney.

Steven Clippenger was paroled in 2010 after serving 20 years in prison for murder, so when he showed up Friday night at his brother’s house with a revolver, Matthew Clippenger confiscated it, angering the ex-con, who returned later with the other gun, Taylor said.

The brothers met in the garage of the home, and the daughter of the slain couple “heard a number of gunshots ring out. Their mother … opened the door to the garage and began screaming” before going into the garage, where the daughter saw Steven Clippenger point the gun, Taylor said. The girl ran to her brother’s bedroom and woke him up.

“The son of Lisa and Matthew Clippenger then opened the bedroom door and saw their mother fleeing down the hallway while Steven Clippenger was chasing her. The children then hear a number of gunshots. They then call 911,” Taylor said in the affidavit.

Matthew Clippenger was found on his driveway, and his wife in the hallway, Taylor said.

Neighbors told the investigator they heard shots ring out, looked out a window and saw Steven Clippenger standing over Matthew Clippenger’s body and shoot him. They neighbors then saw the gunman enter the home, heard more gunshots, then saw him leave the home and jump into a truck driven by Leveque that sped away with its lights off.

Officers found Steven Clippenger, Leveque and another woman in the car pulling away from his home. There were multiple handguns in the car, they said.

The second woman told officers that when Clippenger and Leveque returned to the home, “they told her to pack up her things and they were fleeing to Georgia,” Taylor said.

Authorities didn’t provide ages for the slain couple or their children.

Neighbors say he was found dead in his own home. Now police are investigating a homicide at Elsmere Park in Lexington.

It’s been a shock to family and friends that a jovial and friendly man was murdered in his own home.

Neighbors got curious when they hadn’t seen 66-year-old Douglas Saylor in a few days. One neighbor went over to his home and discovered a disturbingly bloody scene. “This has just shocked all of us. This is just terrible. Doug lived here probably 15 years,” says Cindy Leonard.

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Leonard herself has lived in the tight-knit community on Elsmere Park for about 25 years.

“It’s just an awful thing like nothing I ever expect to see happen on this street. And it’s continued that way throughout the day and I just wanted to get together with some of my neighbors just so we can console each other,” says Leonard.

Police aren’t exactly sure when the crime happened, so they’re requesting the help of the general public. Saylor was known to shop at flea markets and they’re hoping to find people who had seen him in the last few days.

Police are not describing how Saylor was killed, but the coroner believes they’ve identified a murder weapon.

Police say it’s simply too early to determine a motive for the crime.

If you saw Saylor anytime during the last few days, contact police immediately.