Sammy Lewis Nixon Jr. was a 41-year-old male whose race has been recorded as unknown, and he died on September 3, 2017, in Phoenix, Arizona, after becoming the victim of a still-unsolved homicide. Online obituary and funeral records list him under variations of his name, including Sammy Lewis Nixon Jr. and Samuel Nixon, and note that he was born on February 6, 1976, with arrangements following his death handled through Advantage Colonial Mortuary in Phoenix.
According to public crime-stoppers information, the events that led to his death unfolded in the early morning hours of Sunday, September 3, 2017. A disturbance was reported in the area of 18th Avenue and Grant Street, near the 700 block of South 18th Avenue in Phoenix. At about 3:50 a.m., a passerby came upon Nixon lying unresponsive in that same area and contacted authorities. When Phoenix officers and emergency responders arrived, they confirmed that he had died and classified the case as a homicide at the scene.
Publicly available documents provide only limited information about how he was killed or what immediately preceded the disturbance. The Silent Witness homicide notice describes the case simply as a homicide and focuses on the time, location, and discovery of his body, without detailing the specific type of weapon, the nature of any injuries, or whether there had been a confrontation or other criminal activity just before he was found. An online homicide listing that compiles unsolved cases characterizes the manner of his death broadly as “death by force,” but likewise offers no additional narrative about circumstances, motive, or people he might have been with that night.
The investigative status, as reflected in current public records, shows that Nixon's killing remains unsolved. The Silent Witness program lists his case under number 2017-2567 and offers a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and/or indictment of whoever is responsible. That notice explicitly states that the suspect is unknown, and there have been no subsequent public updates from crime-stoppers materials, obituary aggregators, or homicide registries indicating that any suspect has been identified or arrested in connection with his death. Regional crime-mapping and cold-case summaries continue to include Nixon among Phoenix-area unsolved homicides, reinforcing that, despite the passage of years since he was found near 18th Avenue and Grant Street, authorities are still appealing for tips and the public record reflects no arrests or named suspects in the case.
