On the morning of March 9, 2016, 23-year-old Jamar Givens was found dead in the backyard of a home at 950 Elberon Avenue in the East Price Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati. Officers arrived about 6:55 a.m. and discovered Givens suffering from a gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The homeowners said they did not know him and he had no known connection to the property. The case was classified as a homicide and assigned to the Cincinnati Police Department’s Homicide Unit.

Givens was known in the Price Hill community as a standout baseball player and was a father of two young children. His family publicly expressed deep grief and a demand for justice at community gatherings. On April 7, 2016, authorities arrested 29-year-old James Wofford near Atlanta; he was charged with Givens’ murder, extradited to Cincinnati, and later indicted by a grand jury on two counts of murder and two counts of felonious assault, with bond set at $1 million. The investigation into motive and circumstances remains ongoing.

If anyone in East Price Hill that morning has information about Givens or the events leading to his death, contact the Cincinnati Police or Crime Stoppers.