Chance Silver was 26 when he was found shot to death in his Birmingham apartment in the early hours of August 24, 2013. Officers responding to an emergency call entered a unit off U.S. Highway 280 near Springs Avenue and the Target and discovered him in bed with two gunshot wounds to the head.

The door showed no obvious sign of forced entry, a detail investigators noted as they tried to reconstruct the hours before he was found. His roommate was the person who discovered him and the apartment became a crime scene as detectives collected evidence.

Public updates describe the investigation as open but without a publicly named suspect, no announced motive, and no arrest reported; friends and family have repeatedly urged anyone with information to come forward.