James William Edward Wade, a 45-year-old Black man, was shot and killed in Columbus on the morning of December 24, 2016. Officers and medics responded about 6:52 a.m. to Brinwood Place and Noe Bixby Road and found Wade lying in the yard at 5036 Brinwood Place with gunshot wounds. He was taken by medic to Grant Hospital and died there at about 7:42 a.m.

Online entries from the Columbus Division of Police and the Ohio Attorney General list the homicide in cold case archives and do not identify a named suspect, arrest, or criminal charge in connection with his death. The killing remains publicly treated as unsolved.

Did anyone have contact with James Wade in the hours before that Christmas Eve morning or have information about the location at 5036 Brinwood Place?