Seventeen-year-old JeRean Blake Nobles, known as Blake, was fatally shot outside a party store on Detroit’s east side on May 14, 2010. A high school senior and JROTC member who hoped to become a Marine and then an engineer, he was killed after a seemingly trivial argument. Witnesses reported the male suspect left on a moped promising to return, then came back in an SUV and opened fire.

Police identified Chauncey Owens as the primary suspect. Two days later, during an early-morning raid seeking Owens, Detroit’s Special Response Team entered a duplex; a flash grenade was thrown through a window and an officer’s weapon discharged, killing 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones, who was asleep on the living room couch. Owens surrendered in the upstairs apartment.

Chauncey Owens was charged with first-degree murder in Nobles’ shooting. Another man, Charles Jones, was charged with providing Owens the gun. Owens’ plea agreement to name the gun supplier was later withdrawn when he refused to cooperate, and the case went to trial. A jury found Owens guilty of first-degree murder and he was sentenced to life without parole; Charles Jones was found guilty of second-degree murder. Anyone with information about Blake’s final hours or the shooting outside the store is asked to come forward.