Ameer Ross

In the winter of 2011, a tragedy unfolded on Trinity Street in Detroit, Michigan, forever altering the lives of those who knew Ameer Ross. On the first day of February, the body of the 41-year-old African-American male was discovered, his life abruptly ended in an act of violence. The city, long accustomed to the grim statistics of homicide, marked his passing as another life lost too soon.

The initial investigation into Ameer Ross's death yielded few answers, and the case quickly grew co ...