Melvonta Jacox, a 25-year-old Black man, was found with a single gunshot wound to the head in the front yard of a residence on the 2600 block of Irving Avenue North in Minneapolis on the afternoon of August 30, 2015. He was taken to North Memorial Medical Center but died less than a day later.

Minneapolis police opened the death as a suspicious homicide and assigned two detectives, but the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office could not definitively determine the manner of death after an autopsy, leaving open whether the wound was inflicted by someone else or was self-inflicted. That inconclusive finding complicated the investigation. Detectives conducted interviews and reviewed evidence, but no arrests or publicly identified suspects have been announced.

Anyone who was in the Jordan neighborhood that afternoon or who has information about activity on Irving Avenue North near the 2600 block on August 30, 2015, is asked to come forward.