Leroy Gordon was 28 when he was found fatally shot on December 30, 1973, in the street near the intersection of Bluff and Summit Street in Akron, Ohio. The Akron Police Department investigated the scene, but the shooting remains unsolved and is classified as an open cold case.

The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation has highlighted Gordon’s homicide in its unsolved case files and is working with local law enforcement to raise the case’s visibility. No suspects have been publicly identified. Authorities say community tips can be crucial and ask anyone with information to contact the Akron Police Department or submit tips through the Ohio Attorney General’s Office website.

Did anyone in the Akron area at that time remember seeing or hearing anything around Bluff and Summit Street on December 30, 1973?