On December 1, 2011, authorities in Detroit, Michigan, initiated a homicide investigation following the discovery of a body at a residence on the city's northwest side. The victim was identified as David Bowen, a 31-year-old Black male. Law enforcement officers were dispatched to the location at 16501 Griggs Street, a residential property situated in a neighborhood near the intersection of Puritan Avenue and Wyoming Avenue. Upon arrival, they located Bowen deceased at the scene.
The circumstances surrounding Bowen's death were immediately classified as a homicide by the Detroit Police Department. The Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office listed him among the victims of violence in the city for that year, a period which saw a total of 344 homicides in Detroit. The property where his body was found was recorded in county records as being owned by a corporate entity at the time, having recently changed hands through a tax auction process just weeks prior to the incident, suggesting the location may have been vacant or in a state of transition.
Despite the launch of a criminal inquiry, public records and available reports do not indicate that any suspects were immediately apprehended or charged in connection with Bowen's murder. Over the years following the incident, no information has surfaced regarding arrests, trials, or convictions tied specifically to this case, leaving the death of David Bowen as one of the many unsolved homicides from that era in Detroit's history. The case remains part of the archives of cold cases from 2011, with no further details on a motive or perpetrator released to the public.
