In the late hours of a Monday night in September 2011, the stillness of a west side Detroit neighborhood was broken by the glow of a house fire at the corner of West Chicago and Petoskey. Inside the otherwise vacant home, firefighters would discover the body of a man, later identified by his family as Robert Lee Nix. The discovery, however, was not just a casualty of the blaze; an investigation by Detroit homicide detectives would reveal that Nix had been shot.
Robert, a male, had been st
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