Darius Jones Jr., a 19-year-old Black man from Detroit, was found dead on June 26, 2020. His body was discovered wrapped in a carpet inside an abandoned home on the 11800 block of Elmdale after his family had been searching for him for nearly a week; he had been reported missing on June 21 and was last seen near Westphalia. Investigators determined he was the victim of a robbery and a fatal shooting.

Jones’s family publicly mourned him; his brother, a local comedian, and his grandmother spoke about their grief and called for justice, and the community held a vigil describing him as loving and caring. Authorities arrested and charged 17-year-old Jahim Weathersby with felony murder, conspiracy to commit armed robbery, and armed robbery causing serious injury; court records say Weathersby had been on an electronic tether and GPS monitoring for a prior carjacking case at the time.

Anyone with information about Jones’s disappearance or the events around late June 2020 is asked to come forward.