Ramiro Ramirez was found dead at a residence at 8880 Mason Place in Southwest Detroit in 2012. He was 42 and listed among the city’s homicide victims during a year when Detroit’s murder toll rose sharply and eventually exceeded 380.

Police from the Detroit Police Department investigated the death, but public reports from the period give no detailed account of motive or the sequence of events that led to Ramirez’s death. The incident occurred before the late-summer surge in violence that included a spike in September shootings.

No arrests or charges are indicated in the contemporaneous records, and the case appears to be one of many from that difficult year with few publicly reported developments. If anyone knew Ramiro Ramirez or has information about the Mason Place incident, please share what you know.