Xavier Williams, a 31-year-old African-American man, was fatally shot on May 17, 2001, at 1508 West North Bend in Cincinnati, Ohio. Official records and the Ohio Attorney General’s statewide unsolved homicide database (case number 1193) confirm the shooting and his death occurred that day, and the Cincinnati Police Department handled the investigation.

Public information does not establish what Williams was doing immediately before the shooting, whether there was a confrontation, how many times he was shot, if witnesses saw the attack, or whether the shooting was targeted.

More than two decades after the death on West North Bend Road, the case remains unsolved and listed among Ohio’s open homicides. Anyone with information about Xavier Williams’s death is asked to contact the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation tip line at 855-224-6446.