General Townsend was 40 when he was found shot to death on July 30, 1980, in Columbus, Ohio. He was discovered lying beside his car on Livingston Avenue with a fatal gunshot wound to the back of his head; Columbus police pronounced him dead at the scene.

The homicide remains unsolved and is listed in Ohio’s cold case database. The Columbus Police Department, assisted by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, is still seeking new leads and asking anyone with information to come forward.

Did anyone in the area on Livingston Avenue that night notice anything out of the ordinary or remember seeing Townsend’s car?