On June 23, 2002, 17-year-old Black male Anthony Buck was shot and killed in Cincinnati, Ohio. The shooting occurred at 3636 Vine Street in Hamilton County, and official records list the date of the shooting and the date of his homicide as the same day. Buck had been born on November 24, 1984, making him only months away from his eighteenth birthday when his life was taken.
The publicly available record of Buck's killing is brief, leaving many of the circumstances surrounding what happened that day unknown. Authorities have not publicly detailed what led to the shooting, whether Buck had been inside or outside the location when he was attacked, how many shots were fired, whether anyone else was injured, or whether investigators believed the shooting resulted from an argument, robbery, retaliation, or another motive. The Ohio Attorney General's cold-case record simply states that Buck was shot at the Vine Street address and identifies the Cincinnati Police Department as the law-enforcement agency responsible for the investigation.
Despite the passage of more than two decades, Buck's death continues to be listed by the Ohio Attorney General as an unsolved homicide under case number 1160. The state's current cold-case information does not identify a suspected shooter or other person of interest, and available online records do not document an arrest, criminal charge, trial, or conviction connected to his killing. The continued placement of the case in Ohio's unsolved-homicide database indicates that investigators have not publicly announced that anyone has been held criminally responsible for his death.
Buck's case remains part of Cincinnati's unresolved homicide history. State authorities continue to maintain the case in their cold-case system and ask anyone with additional information to submit a tip. With no publicly named suspect and no reported prosecution, the central questions of who shot Anthony Buck and why he was killed at 3636 Vine Street on June 23, 2002, remain unanswered.
