Dewey D. Jones, a 31-year-old Black man and lifelong Akron resident born February 24, 1978, was found unresponsive from a gunshot wound inside a residence on Bachtel Avenue in Akron, Ohio, shortly after 2:00 a.m. on October 2, 2009. He was pronounced dead at the scene and the Akron Police Department opened a homicide investigation.

Jones attended Buchtel High School and was survived by a large family, including several siblings and extended relatives. Funeral services were held October 9, 2009, at Stewart & Calhoun Funeral Home, with interment at Glendale Cemetery. No arrests have been announced and the Ohio Attorney General’s Office lists the case as an unsolved homicide.

Anyone with information about the shooting on Bachtel Avenue on October 2, 2009, is asked to contact the Akron Police Department.