On the morning of March 10, 2015, 38-year-old Chauncey Jarrett was fatally shot during a robbery attempt on Detroit’s east side. The attack occurred about 3:30 a.m. as Jarrett and three companions — a 21-year-old man and two women in their early twenties — were walking home from a nearby restaurant on Beaconsfield Street near Britian Avenue, close to I-94 and Cadieux Road.

Two masked men blocked the group, announced a robbery, then opened fire. Jarrett ran but was struck and killed. The 21-year-old man was wounded with non-life-threatening injuries; the two women were not physically harmed. Witnesses described the first suspect as roughly 5 feet 6 inches and 185 pounds in a gray hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans, and the second as similar height, about 200 pounds, wearing all dark clothing. Both wore masks and fled into the neighborhood. No arrests had been reported at the time of this account.

If anyone witnessed the confrontation or has information about the two masked men, please share what is known with Detroit police.