Brian Robinson Jr. was 16 when he was shot and killed inside a friend’s home on Mansfield Street near Pembroke Avenue in Detroit on the evening of July 20, 2012, between about 5:00 and 5:30 p.m. A popular student-athlete planning to graduate the following January with aspirations to play college basketball and study engineering, Brian was described by his parents, Brian Robinson Sr. and Patrice Robinson, as a focused, promising young man.

Multiple people were in the house at the time, but an aunt reported that no witnesses publicly cooperated with the investigation. The Detroit Police Department had not identified suspects or a motive in the immediate aftermath, and Crime Stoppers offered up to a $2,500 reward for information leading to an arrest. The family’s public appeals went unanswered and the case grew cold, with no public announcements of arrests, suspect IDs, or charges in the years following the killing.

Does anyone who knew Brian or was in that neighborhood on July 20, 2012 have information that could help bring answers to his family?