Gene Chambers was 20 when he was fatally wounded in Detroit on the evening of June 21, 2012, in the 19200 block of Schoolcraft Avenue. His death was one of 386 homicides in the city that year during a surge in violent crime that strained available police resources.

Detectives faced familiar obstacles in the investigation: a shortage of cooperative witnesses and insufficient physical evidence. Those problems, combined with manpower shortages in the Murder Bureau, meant the case did not advance to an arrest. No suspects have been publicly identified and the killing remains unsolved.

Anyone who knew Gene, was in the Schoolcraft Avenue area that evening, or has information that could help investigators is urged to come forward.