On Thursday, September 11, 2014, 15-year-old DeLeonce Williams Jr., a student at Saginaw High School known as Pooh Bear, was fatally shot on the south side of Saginaw, Michigan. Emergency responders found him with a gunshot wound to the chest and he was taken by ambulance to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

DeLeonce was born January 4, 1999, and was remembered by family and friends as a typical teenager who enjoyed playing and watching football, video games, and had a passion for rapping and music. Police found blood on an interior wall of the home where the shooting occurred; the Saginaw Police Department, with assistance from the Michigan State Police, opened a criminal investigation.

Authorities said a male suspect was taken into custody in connection with the shooting, but they did not release the suspect’s identity or the circumstances that led to the shooting. If anyone has information about what happened that night or knew DeLeonce, please come forward with tips for investigators.