Cortez Blassingame was 27 when he was shot and killed on December 24, 2002, on Kentucky Avenue in Cincinnati’s West End. The shooting happened at about 1956 Kentucky Avenue. The Cincinnati Police Department and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation list the killing as an open homicide and the case remains unsolved.

The Ohio Attorney General’s office has included Cortez’s case in the state cold case database to raise visibility and encourage tips. Authorities urge anyone with information to contact the BCI or the Cincinnati Police Department to help bring justice and provide Cortez’s family with closure.

Did anyone in the West End remember seeing or hearing anything on the night of December 24, 2002?