A summer block party on a Detroit basketball court near Webb Street and Dexter Avenue ended in tragedy when 19-year-old Malik Jones was killed by gunfire on June 20, 2015. The gathering of roughly 400 to 500 people included families and children; gunshots turned a barbecue into chaos and left Jones dead and eleven others, ages in their early twenties to their forties, wounded.

Jones had been shot and wounded in the same neighborhood about a month before the block party, and investigators treated the June shooting as retaliatory. Police said they were searching for two men believed to have been involved in a gunfight with Jones at the event, but widespread reluctance among witnesses hampered the inquiry. Public appeals from the Detroit Police Chief sought help from the community.

No arrests or charges have been reported in connection with Malik Jones’s death. If anyone at the June 20, 2015 block party or who knew Malik has information that could help, please come forward to investigators.