On the evening of August 22, 2016, 39-year-old Kenneth Kirkwood was shot multiple times while taking a break on the porch of a vacant house he was renovating on College Avenue SE in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He and a coworker were approached by three individuals on bicycles, described as teenagers, who demanded money. The coworker was pistol-whipped and the assailants fled. Kirkwood was taken to a hospital and died of his injuries in the early hours of August 23.

The Grand Rapids Police Department treated the attack as a random act of violence and investigated. In October 2017 Ramon Catrell Logan was arrested in connection with the murder while already in custody on an unrelated charge. In May 2018 Logan was convicted of second-degree murder and received a sentence of 38 to 100 years, plus two years for a felony firearm charge. Kenneth Kirkwood’s family and community held a vigil after his death.

If anyone knew Kenneth, his movements that night, or saw activity on College Avenue SE around 9 p.m., please share what you know.