Curdetruis Keaton-Williams, 23, a Black man, was killed just after midnight on December 26, 2020, in Flint, Michigan, when the quiet hours after Christmas turned into a rush of sirens and flashing lights. Police were called to the 600 block of West Pulaski Avenue around 12:24 a.m., where they found him outside a residence, fatally shot.
According to reports citing Flint police, the person who lived at the home was identified as the shooter.
Instead of fleeing into the night, the homeowner reportedly remained on scene and identified himself to officers when they arrived. He was taken into custody and lodged at the Genesee County Jail while the case awaited review by the Genesee County Prosecutor’s Office, a step that typically determines whether charges will be authorized and what they might be. Public reporting about the incident did not consistently name the homeowner, and the available accounts focused on the immediate response rather than describing, in detail, what led up to the shooting at the residence.
In Flint, the death landed in the middle of a grim holiday stretch that left the city reeling. In the days that followed, community members gathered in prayer and public grief, speaking his name alongside others lost to violence that same weekend. Reporting from local outlets described residents marching and praying through the neighborhood, calling for peace and relief from the bloodshed, as the city tried to make sense of how quickly celebration had given way to mourning.
Investigators also weighed the possibility that the killings over that weekend could be connected, a suspicion that surfaced publicly as attention focused on multiple shootings occurring close in time and location. Even so, in the sources available here, the only arrest specifically tied to Curdetruis Keaton-Williams’s death was the homeowner being jailed pending prosecutorial review, and those same accounts did not confirm any publicly announced charges, trial, or conviction stemming from that custody decision.
