In the early morning hours of March 13, 2013, the body of 33-year-old William Jr. Bass was discovered on West Bay Street in Savannah, Georgia. Patrol officers from the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department responded to a call of a shooting in the 1300 block of the street at approximately 1:03 a.m. and found Bass deceased at the scene. He had been fatally shot. When he was found, Bass was clutching two one-dollar bills in his hand.
The investigation into the death of William Jr. Bass, a male resident of Savannah, was immediately classified as a homicide. Authorities began an appeal to the public for any information that might lead to the person or persons responsible for his death. A confidential tip line was also made available for individuals to provide information directly to the investigators.
In the months that followed, the case of William Jr. Bass was mentioned in a broader context of homicides that had occurred in the west Savannah area over the preceding year. In a June 2013 press release, the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department announced that arrests had been made in two of five recent homicide cases, attributing the breakthroughs to the willingness of witnesses to come forward. However, the announcement also stated that detectives were still seeking information regarding the other three unsolved murders, one of which was the shooting death of the 33-year-old man on West Bay Street on March 13. There have been no subsequent online reports indicating that an arrest has been made in connection with the murder of William Jr. Bass, and his case is not mentioned as being solved in later reports on the department's efforts to address unsolved homicides.
