CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — Police in Carbondale are asking for the public’s help in trying to solve the killing of a man eight years ago.

A $6,000 reward is being offered for details leading to an arrest and conviction in the stabbing death of Ryan Livingston.

Authorities say Livingston was walking on a sidewalk in Carbondale on July 13, 2006, when two men approached him, perhaps intent on robbing him.Livingston was stabbed twice in the chest and died a short time later at a hospital.

Police have said Livingston managed to give investigators a brief description of the assailants, but not enough to produce an arrest.

Carbondale Police can be reached at 457-3200

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