On the morning of September 20, 2012, Keith Redus, a 42-year-old Black union steward, was fatally stabbed on the first shift floor of the Jefferson North Assembly Plant on Conner Street in Detroit. According to witnesses, a coworker identified as Jeff Hunter confronted Redus near the loading dock shortly after 8:00 a.m.; the confrontation escalated and Hunter attacked Redus with a knife, inflicting fatal neck and chest wounds. Emergency responders pronounced Redus dead at the plant and production was suspended as the facility went into lockdown.

Hunter fled the factory in a red Jeep Grand Cherokee and was later found deceased in his vehicle on Belle Isle from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, ending the manhunt and leaving no arrest or trial in Redus’s death. Reports link the dispute to a personal conflict involving Hunter’s wife, who also worked at the plant. If anyone witnessed the altercation on the morning of September 20 or has information about the events leading up to it, please come forward.