On New Year’s Day 2012, 39-year-old Lamark Billingslea was shot in the neck while trying to break up a fight at HR’s Lounge on Detroit’s northeast side. Friends rushed him toward a hospital in a vehicle rather than waiting for an ambulance, but that transport was interrupted by a car crash; Detroit police arrived, took over getting him to a hospital, and he was later pronounced dead. Two women were also wounded in the shooting and were treated and released.

Detroit police investigated the incident but reported no immediate arrests the evening after the killing. The case eventually grew cold; no suspects have been publicly identified and no one has been charged in connection with his death. Lamark was the son of Joe Billingslea of The Contours and was managing the lounge when he was killed.

If anyone was at HR’s Lounge that night or has information that could help reopen the investigation, please come forward.