On July 11, 2017, Detroit police found 48-year-old African American Thomas Woods deceased at a home on 7845 Ashton Avenue in the Warrendale neighborhood. His death was ruled a homicide after investigators determined he had been fatally assaulted.

Public details about what happened to Woods are sparse. Authorities have not released the specific circumstances or the cause of his fatal injuries, and no suspects have been publicly named. There have been no arrests in connection with the killing, which remains an unsolved case and part of a number of cold homicides from that year in Detroit.

Anyone who remembers events on Ashton Avenue around July 11, 2017, or who has information about Thomas Woods’s death is asked to contact the Detroit Police Department to help move this investigation forward.