Jerome Pyles, a 42-year-old African American man, was found dead on January 20, 2010, on Detroit’s east side near Bessemore and Erwin streets, with specific records placing the location in the 6800 block of Iroquois Street near the Van Dyke Avenue corridor. Police classified the death as a homicide and the Detroit Police Department handled the investigation, but initial public releases did not specify the exact cause of death.

No suspects were immediately arrested and the case went cold. Cold case databases and law enforcement records list no arrests in connection with Pyles’s murder, and the circumstances of his final moments remain unclear.

If anyone knew Jerome, lived in that neighborhood at the time, or has information about what happened that night, please come forward to investigators.