On the morning of June 14, 1971, eight people were shot inside a red-brick apartment on Hazelwood Street in Detroit. Sharon Brown, 20, was found in the living room with a gunshot wound to the head and died at the scene. She was also known by the aliases Jacquelynn Foster and Linda Johnson.

Police treating the incident as a mass execution believed the primary target was Robert Gardner, who was linked to the city’s heroin trade. Investigators recovered cartridges of different calibers, indicating multiple firearms were used. A theory developed that two Toronto-based drug dealers carried out the killings in retaliation for a robbery months earlier, and that the other victims were killed to eliminate witnesses to Gardner’s murder.

No arrests or definitive identifications of perpetrators have been reported and the Hazelwood massacre remains officially unsolved. Did anyone who knew Sharon Brown, her other names, or her circle in Detroit around 1971 ever notice anything that could help this cold case?