Jacob Hills was an 18-year-old from Grand Blanc, Michigan, who was found dead in the basement of a Detroit apartment building on the morning of July 24, 2022. A recent high school graduate planning to join the National Guard, he had traveled to Detroit on a Saturday evening to attend a party. When family members could not reach him, they tracked his phone to Dearborn Heights and located his abandoned car and phone there.

An anonymous tip led Jacob’s father to a residence on West Warren Avenue in Detroit, where police discovered Jacob’s body; he had sustained multiple gunshot wounds. Investigators focused on 23-year-old Avion Sanders of Westland, who is accused of meeting Hills at the party, later shooting him, stealing his AR-15 rifle and the victim’s vehicle, and abandoning the car at a Dearborn Heights hookah lounge. Jacob’s mother said her son may have been lured because of the new gun and money from his graduation.

Did anyone who knew Jacob or was at the party that night see him leave with someone?