On December 1, 2017, gunfire broke out inside the Mass Transportation Authority Transit Center on Harrison Street in downtown Flint. Clevis Bassett, 31, a Black man, was shot during the disturbance and later died from his wounds at Hurley Medical Center. The shooting occurred just before 9 p.m. on a Friday night; there were no immediate arrests announced in the first hours after the incident.

Court records describe a dispute over bus passes that escalated from words to shoves, with Bassett forcing another man toward the exit. Surveillance footage shows that after being pushed out of the building, the shooter drew a gun and fired five times toward Bassett. The next day, Eric Paul Wilson admitted in a police interview that he shot Bassett but said he acted in self-defense, claiming he believed Bassett was reaching for a gun.

Prosecutors charged Wilson with first-degree premeditated murder; the matter proceeded to two jury trials and the second trial produced convictions for second-degree murder, discharging a firearm in a building causing death, carrying a concealed weapon, and felony-firearm. The convictions and sentences were affirmed on appeal, and records list Wilson as incarcerated with an earliest release date in 2043. Does anyone who was at the transit center that night or knew Clevis Bassett have information that could add detail about what happened?