Deqauris Essex, a 17-year-old from Saginaw, Michigan, was shot during a violent incident that began the evening of January 31, 2017, at the intersection of Cass Avenue and South Harrison Street. Officers arrived at about 7:25 p.m.; he was found wounded, taken to a hospital, and was pronounced dead on February 1. The killing was recorded as the third homicide in Saginaw and the fourth in Saginaw County for the year.

Obituary and funeral notices place his birth and death in Saginaw and report services at Evans & Browne’s Funeral Home with interment at Forest Lawn Cemetery. Subsequent reporting linked the shooting to a botched marijuana robbery. Coverage identified a person named Smith in court proceedings and later reported that a 30-year-old father of two received a sentence of more than 20 years for the killing; those accounts also noted Smith faced a separate charge related to manufacturing or delivering marijuana.

If anyone knew Deqauris, his whereabouts that night, or has information relevant to the shooting, please share what is known.