On the late evening of September 5, 2017, an assailant fired from the porch into a house in the 2000 block of Deacon Street near Visger Street in southwest Detroit. The attack, carried out with an assault rifle, killed two people inside: 30-year-old Daniel Brown, who suffered a gunshot wound to the head, and 29-year-old Sophia Wilson, who was three months pregnant and struck in the neck. Emergency responders pronounced both victims dead at the scene.

Police briefly detained two people for questioning but later released them. By February 2018 the case remained unsolved and no charges had been filed. Families of both victims, including Brown’s relatives and Wilson’s parents, distributed flyers and offered a cash reward while publicly pleading for information about the ambush that also resulted in the death of the unborn child. No suspects have been publicly named or convicted in connection with the Deacon Street shootings.

If anyone has information about who approached that porch or saw activity on Deacon Street that night, please come forward.