Steven Johnson was 31 when he was found fatally shot on Detroit’s east side on March 6, 2012. His body was discovered in a residential area during a period when the city was experiencing a marked rise in violent crime that spring. Initial responding officers determined he had been shot, but investigators encountered little physical evidence and few cooperative witnesses at the scene.

Police were unable to reconstruct a clear sequence of events or establish a motive—whether robbery, a personal dispute, or a random act—and the investigation never produced arrests or publicly named suspects. The case has gone cold and remains an unsolved homicide. If anyone has information about Steven’s last movements or the neighborhood scene that day, please come forward.