Approximately 200 people turned out Monday evening for a vigil to remember a 30-year-old man shot to death early Saturday outside the Fox II bar.

Mourners and supports from as far away as Cincinnati joined family members, who spoke publicly for the first time in describing Douglas Kelly as a father who was trying to make a difference in the ongoing struggle to end street violence.

Ironically, Victoria Jones said Kelly was at the bar for an event whose focus was anti-violence.

"It was a stop-the-crime because so many of his friends and family have been through crime and the thing is, he was trying to make a difference, and the difference turned out for the worst for him," said Jones, who is the mother of Kelly’s 2-year-old and 13-year-old sons.

Kelly, who also has a 12-year-old daughter, was at the bar to spread his new message of change of lessons learned from his past.

"His younger days were different … because he really did make the effort to make a change, but the streets don’t change," she told News Center 7's Yuna Lee.

According to a search of court records, Kelly served multiple stints in prison for felony convictions.

In 2000, he was convicted on two counts of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon and sentenced to three years in prison on each count. In 2004, he was convicted on another count of the same charge along with felonious assault with a deadly weapon. He was sentenced to four years in prison.

Police have made no arrests in the homicide, which according to their investigation occurred just outside the back door of the bar, 2217 N. James H. McGee Blvd. Kelly was shot at least four times in the upper chest area. He came inside the establishment, collapsed and died.

Dayton Lt. Kenneth Beall has said that police are looking for a male suspect in the shooting, whom he did not identify. He said there were roughly 100 people in the bar at the time of the incident.

The bar was known as the Silver Fox Lounge for decades, according to Beall. He noted that authorities do not consider the establishment a "problem bar."

Like the police, Kelly’s family and its supporters returned to the bar as they continue to search for answers.

"They took my brother, now my son. How much more can I take?" Kelly’s mother, Florence Sanders, asked.