Nicholas Phillips was born February 12, 1995, and died in August 2015 in Detroit at age 20. Searches for police reports, news coverage, or arrest records directly tied to his death did not produce official information linking his passing to a specific homicide investigation or identifying suspects.

Detroit recorded many violent deaths in 2015 and August was among the months with higher homicide totals; other young men in Nicholas’s age group were among the victims that year.

If anyone knew Nicholas, his associates, or has information about what happened in August 2015, please come forward with any details that could help his family find answers.