Robert Reynolds, a 28-year-old man and father of three, spent Saturday, April 6, 2013, with his mother, Patricia Reynolds. She was recovering from surgery for cancer, and the time they shared would be their last. Her son was killed the very next day in a brutal shooting on Detroit's west side.
On the evening of Sunday, April 7, 2013, Robert and a friend, known only as Peso, were sitting in a car at the intersection of Woodrow Wilson and Pingree, just a few blocks from Robert’s home. It was around 7:30 p.m., and according to his mother, they had been planning to go to Belle Isle with friends. As they sat in the vehicle, a minivan pulled up beside them.
Two masked men jumped out of the minivan and opened fire on the car with an AK-47 and a handgun. Dozens of shots were fired in the ambush. The gunmen reportedly even shot at people nearby who they thought might have witnessed the attack.
After the barrage of gunfire, the assailants got back in their minivan and fled, leaving Robert Reynolds and his friend Peso to die at the scene.
In the aftermath, Patricia Reynolds mourned the loss of her son, describing the violence as senseless. “These kids out here just killing… one another, it’s just senseless to me,” she said. The sources available do not name any suspects or mention any arrests in the double homicide. As of April 2013, the case remained unsolved.
