Demarious Kortez Spicer was 22 when he died from gunshot wounds on December 27, 2016, at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan. Reports say he was killed at an apartment complex on the city’s northeast side before being taken to the hospital. He was born in Flint on October 5, 1994, and known to some as Dezzel or The Great One.

Family remembered him as intelligent, fond of jokes and video games, and devoted to his two children. His funeral service was held January 7, 2017, at the Church of Trinity Pentecostal, and he was buried at Sunset Hills Cemetery. The death was investigated as a homicide, but no arrests or publicly identified suspects have been announced, and the case remains unsolved.

If anyone has information about what happened that night at the apartment complex or knew Demarious, please come forward.