Demetrius Evans was 25 when he was fatally shot in Detroit in the early morning hours of November 7, 2015. He was driving a blue 2005 Dodge Magnum near Wyoming Avenue and I-96 on the city’s west side around 2 a.m., accompanied by a friend. The two cars had been following another vehicle en route to a birthday celebration and pulled into a gas station when a car approached and an occupant opened fire. Evans was struck and died from his injuries. The shooting vehicle was possibly an older model red Chrysler 200.

Evans graduated from Madison Heights High School and earned a mechanical engineering degree from Oakland University. At the time of his death he worked as an engineer at the Art Van plant in Warren. Family and friends described him as caring and responsible; his mother recalled the phone call that informed her of his death. Detroit Police homicide detectives investigated and surveillance video from the gas station showing Evans’s car was released. No arrests have been announced and Crime Stoppers of Michigan has offered a cash reward for tips that lead to an arrest.

If anyone has information about that night or the red Chrysler 200, please come forward to investigators.