Omari Charlie Robinson was a 41-year-old Black man known around Detroit’s west side as Charlie O, often selling CDs and DVDs outside the 5th Street/5th Avenue Liquor Store on Fenkell Avenue near the Southfield Freeway. Neighbors described him as a familiar, good-natured presence devoted to his three children. On the night of September 1, 2016, Robinson got into an argument inside the store with two young men that moved into the parking lot. Investigators say Robinson struck one man with a glass bottle, and then one of the men produced a gun and shot Robinson. He was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead shortly afterward.

Detroit police released surveillance images showing two men identified as persons of interest. Witnesses described them as two Black men in their twenties; the suspected shooter was reported as light complected, about 5 feet 9 inches and 150 pounds in a white T-shirt, while the other wore a black and blue shirt and fled on foot. Public appeals were made for tips, but available reports do not show any arrest or charge in the case. If anyone knew Omari Robinson or recognizes the men in the surveillance images, please share what you know with Detroit police.