Robert Ball was a 58-year-old reserve officer with the Highland Park Police Department who was shot while off-duty at a neighborhood block party on Detroit’s east side. The gathering on the 19000 block of Teppert Street was disrupted in the early morning of August 28, 2016, when an unknown vehicle drove by and an occupant opened fire on the crowd. Ball was struck in the stomach and taken to St. John Hospital for emergency surgery.

He remained in critical but stable condition for several weeks as family, friends, and colleagues hoped for recovery. Complications developed when an infection could not be controlled, and Ball died of his injuries on October 14, 2016, nearly seven weeks after the shooting.

The Detroit Police Department investigated the drive-by shooting but reported no arrests in the months after the attack. Investigators could not say whether Ball had been the intended target or an unintended victim.

If anyone was at that block party or remembers seeing a suspicious vehicle on Teppert Street the night of August 28, 2016, please share what you know.