Donnel Coney, a 47-year-old Black man from Detroit, Michigan, died on June 2, 2013, closing a life that began on February 27, 1966. In the days that followed, those who loved him were left to do what families have done for generations after a sudden loss: gather, mourn, and try to make sense of the empty space left behind.
Public memorial records indicate he was laid to rest at Lincoln Memorial Park in Clinton Township, Michigan. Beyond those anchor points—his birth, his death date, and the place where he was buried—few widely accessible details appear in the public online record about what happened in the hours leading up to his death.
No publicly available online reporting located in this search identified an arrested suspect, a named person of interest, or any filed charges connected to Coney’s death. In the absence of those specifics, the story that remains visible is the quieter one: a man’s timeline reduced to a pair of dates, and a burial site that marks where grief was finally set down.
