Michael Jerome Dace II, a 22-year-old Black man from Detroit, died on September 6, 2011, leaving behind a footprint that now survives mostly in fragments: a funeral home notice that marks the dates, a graveside memorial that fixes his name in stone, and a homicide-victim list that places him on a single Detroit block. ([O. H. Pye, III
Funeral Home
The homicide list records that he was killed on 09/06/11 at 16128 Cherrylawn, a west-side address that becomes the story’s only public “scene”—a line of text that hints at sirens, neighbors at windows, and the sudden stillness that follows violence, without offering the surrounding facts of what led up to it or how it unfolded.
Online memorial records tie the rest together with the kind of quiet certainty that comes after the chaos: his birth date is listed as October 18, 1988, and his death date again as September 6, 2011. He is memorialized as buried at Mount Elliott Cemetery in Detroit, a place where the city’s history and its losses rest side by side, and where his name appears for strangers and loved ones alike to find years later.
Publicly available sources reviewed do not describe any arrests, named suspects, or an identified shooter connected to his killing, nor do they document charges, court proceedings, or a conviction in his case. What remains online, instead, reads like a life interrupted and then carefully gathered into the few official and semi-official records that families and communities rely on when answers are hard to come by.
