Eugene Jones, a 44-year-old Black man and Detroit Department of Transportation bus driver known to friends as Short Dog, was shot and killed in his Harper Woods, Michigan, home in the early morning hours of March 10, 2019. The shooting followed a domestic dispute with the child’s mother, 23-year-old Nija Starke. Police found Jones on the bathroom floor with a gunshot wound; he was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead. The firearm believed to have been used was recovered at the scene.

Starke was taken into custody at the scene and later charged by the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office with first-degree premeditated murder and a felony firearm violation. She was arraigned in 32-A District Court in Harper Woods, with bail set at $250,000 and a preliminary examination scheduled for later that month. Friends, family, and Jones’s DDOT coworkers remembered him for his sense of humor and mourned the sudden loss.

If anyone knew Eugene, his routines, or has information about the evening of March 10, 2019, please come forward.