On January 13, 1991, 26-year-old Roderick Clemons was shot and killed during an apparent robbery at the Church’s Chicken restaurant where he worked as assistant manager, located at 1261 Copley Road in Akron, Ohio. Clemons had clocked in for his shift that day but never made it home; he had been pursuing a promotion and had expressed concerns about the rough neighborhood around the restaurant.

The Akron Police Department and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation have kept the case open for decades. Despite repeated appeals and media attention — including coverage by journalists and an episode of the Murder Sheet podcast that examined his story — no suspects have been publicly identified and the homicide remains unsolved.

If anyone has information about the robbery or the people involved that night, please come forward and share what you know.