PORTLAND, Maine (WGAN) Portland police are asking for the public’s help in solving a murder that happened 20 years ago.
18-year-old Robert Joyal, a Gorham high school student, was killed on April 4th, 1998. Police say he was out with friends at the Denny’s restaurant at 1091 Congress Street around 1am when a fight broke out in the parking lot and he was stabbed to death.
Police identified Seiha Srey as a suspect and indicted him for murder, but the charges were dismissed before a trial could begin. No one was ever held accountable for the killing, and Srey himself died in a 2007 shooting.
Now, Portland police are returning to the investigation and asking anyone who may have witnessed the crime or have information they were reluctant to share with police at the time to come forward.
