At 26, Ali Bryant is still scared of the dark. Her brother, Austin Bryant, knew that.

The night before he was killed, he was in her room being the little brother older sisters tend to have: annoying. He’d grab at her feet as she slept to frighten her or put his feet in her face just to mess with her.

Ali smiled at the thought.

Today, her brother’s ashes rest in a red, metallic urn on the dresser across from the foot of her bed as she sleeps.

"Sometimes I feel a breeze of wind blow past me or someone messing with my foot and I know it’s my brother. And I’ll be like, ‘OK, Austin. I get it,’" she said, laughing. "It’s just things like that that let me know (he’s there)."

Sunday marked the one-year since 20-year-old Austin Bryant was shot and killed by the intersection of Military Trail and Purdy Lane near Flashdance, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators say a fight broke out during the early hours of April 16, someone pulled a gun and shot Austin outside the strip club. He was found dead at the scene.

No arrest has been made. Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County is offering a $1,000 reward for information in the case. Those with information are asked to call 800-458-TIPS (8477).

For Ali, a year later means less pain, more anger. Why did they shoot her brother? Why do they get to go home to their family and sleep at night? When does Austin get justice?

"No one deserves to die like that. No one," she said. "Someone knows who did this. They need to come forward."

For Austin’s mother, Kristina Bryant, there’s still a lot of pain.

She misses her son’s calls during they day and still waits for his 6-foot frame to fill the doorway of his grandmother’s home just north of Lake Park where she and her daughter live. She can smile at those thoughts now. But in those first few months after her son was killed, she didn’t stop crying. She lost her job as a nurse and couldn’t go outside most days.

"The loss of a child doesn’t come with a handbook. You just try to do what you think is right," she said. "I brought two kids into this world, and now when I wake up, there’s one. It just doesn’t seem natural. It doesn’t seem right."

In the past few months, she started going through boxes of his things and found a shirt that smelled just like Austin. She couldn’t believe it. There he was with her again.

"Well, he had a smell," her daughter chimes in and they both laugh.

In the past year, Kristina said she’s thankful for her son’s friends who always check in, her daughter to lean on and for the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office detective working the case. She said the detective keeps in contact with her constantly, even if new evidence or news comes few and far between. But she still has hope.

"I’ll never forget. She sat in that chair," she said pointing to the leather recliner her daughter sat in by the door, "And said, ‘I promise, no matter what I will not quit working on this case until it’s solved.’ We just keep hoping and praying that some kind of miracle will happen."