Melvin Jennings

Melvin Jennings, a 26-year-old Black man, was shot on the evening of May 20, 2017, outside a family home on Detroit’s east side, in the 5800 block of Woodhall Street near Chandler Park Drive and Cadieux Road. He had come to the house and found tensions already in the street—people he knew clustered nearby, voices raised, the kind of argument that can feel ordinary right up until it isn’t. He stepped toward it anyway, trying to settle things down, and in the sudden burst of gunfire that fol ...

Man killed in crossfire during argument outside parents' home

Family remembers man fatally shot outside his mother's home