In the early morning hours of November 3, 2016, 39-year-old Jeremaine Tilmon was standing in front of a friend’s house on Chatsworth Street on Detroit’s east side when he was shot and killed. A passerby found his body in the street at about 2:30 a.m. Witnesses said Tilmon was unarmed and had his hands raised when he was shot; his death was described by those close to him as execution-style.

Tilmon was a well-known ceasefire advocate who mentored young men through the violence prevention program Cease Fire. He was also the stepfather of Davontae Sanford, who had been released from wrongful imprisonment months earlier. The killing deeply affected a family that had only recently begun to recover from that ordeal.

Detroit police named a person of interest and made an arrest in connection with the shooting; the suspect was identified as 35-year-old Floyd Darnell Nix of Roseville and charged with first-degree premeditated murder, felony firearm, and felon in possession of a firearm. What more can anyone add about Jeremaine’s work in the community or about that night?