Amir Thomas-Clair, a 20-year-old Black man, was found wounded inside a crashed vehicle on the 1700 block of Nevada Avenue in east Toledo after gunfire shattered the night around 12:20 a.m. on July 5, 2025. Medics transported him to Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center, where he died; the Lucas County Coroner ruled the death a homicide, citing a gunshot wound to the back and listing the place of injury as 1711 Nevada Avenue.

Two other people were in the vehicle: a second occupant was also struck and listed in critical condition, while a third escaped without injury. The Nevada Avenue crash came minutes after another shooting less than a mile away, and local officials linked the incidents as part of the same early-morning stretch of violence. Detectives opened a homicide investigation and asked anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers; no arrests or suspects had been announced in Amir Thomas-Clair’s killing at the time of these releases.

Did anyone in the area that night see or hear anything that could help investigators?