On the afternoon of July 13, 2010, police in Detroit were called to an apartment in the 2500 block of West McNichols Road near Linwood Street. Officers entered around 1:35 p.m. and found 39-year-old Charles Eric McGlown unresponsive on his living room sofa; first responders pronounced him dead at the scene. Investigators determined he had sustained a fatal gunshot wound to the back of the head and appeared to have been lying face down, as if sleeping, when attacked.

There were no signs of forced entry, and several of McGlown’s personal belongings were missing, leading detectives to treat robbery as a likely motive and to consider that the intruder may have been known to the victim or had access to the apartment. McGlown, a barber known by the nickname Famous, was a father of three and remembered by family and clients as humble and well regarded. Decades after the killing the case remains unsolved with no arrest or publicly named suspect; Crime Stoppers has periodically sought tips and offered rewards.

If anyone knew Charles, his movements that day, or who might have had access to his home, please come forward with information.