A man in his 30s was found shot in the head on the 19900 block of Revere Street yesterday, and he later died at the hospital, as Detroit Police work to track down a person of interest in the case. Police have named 32-year-old Branden Lamar Wilson, a Detroit resident, as the person they want to locate in connection with the fatal shooting.
According to ClickOnDetroit, officers were called to the scene and found the victim suffering from a gunshot wound before he was taken to a local hospital, where he died from his injuries. Police are asking the public for help locating Wilson as they continue the investigation. Detroit Rewards TV is offering a $5,000 reward for information that helps move the case forward, per the same report.
How Police Were First Alerted
The response actually began minutes earlier than 911 calls suggest. Emergency dispatch logs show officers were first alerted to gunfire by a ShotSpotter acoustic detection alert at approximately 1:33 a.m. Friday, before any 911 callers reported a person shot in the area, according to The Detroit Scanner. Arriving 11th Precinct officers located the victim with a gunshot wound to the head, and Detroit EMS Medic 16 transported him to Detroit Receiving Hospital at around 1:50 a.m., where he was pronounced deceased.
That reliance on automated gunshot detection is not unusual for the area. An analysis of Detroit Police Department data presented during municipal budget reviews found that residents call 911 in fewer than 20 percent of gunfire incidents detected by ShotSpotter sensors, according to BridgeDetroit. Investigators say fear of retaliation or simple normalization of gunfire often keeps neighbors from dialing in.
Early Leads and Unanswered Questions
Initial police dispatch and crime intelligence broadcasts noted a shooting suspect described as driving a black Cadillac CTS, and indicated that an individual associated with the Revere Street address had an outstanding homicide warrant, per the Detroit Scanner post. It remains unclear how, or whether, that vehicle description and outstanding warrant connect directly to Wilson, and police have not said whether he is considered the shooter or a witness. The exact relationship between Wilson and the victim, and the victim's identity, have not been made public.
The 19900 block of Revere Street sits on Detroit's northeast side, within the patrol territory of the Detroit Police Department's 11th Precinct, headquartered at 5100 East Nevada Avenue, according to Motor City 911. Precinct detectives typically handle the initial fieldwork on cases like this before handing them to the department's centralized Homicide Unit.
Part of a Broader Drop in Detroit Violence
This fatal shooting lands amid a marked decline in Detroit gun violence. The city recorded 165 criminal homicides in 2025, a 19 percent drop from 203 in 2024 and the first time Detroit's annual murder total fell below 200 since 1965, according to The Metro Detroit News. Non-fatal shootings fell 26 percent in the same period, to 447 incidents, continuing a sharp multi-year decline from 1,176 such shootings reported in 2020.
Detroit's homicide clearance rate has also climbed past 60 percent in recent years, up from a historic low of under 30 percent a decade earlier, per the City of Detroit's own accounting. City leaders have pointed to that improvement as a sign of rebuilding public trust, but investigators still lean on tips from residents to close cases. That is the purpose behind Detroit Rewards TV, an official Detroit Police Department program that produces video re-enactments of unsolved crimes and distributes cash rewards for tips, according to Police1.
How to Submit a Tip
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the Detroit Police Department Homicide Unit at 313-596-5260, or to submit an anonymous tip through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-SPEAK-UP or through DetroitRewards.tv. Tipsters should reference case number 2608210019 when reaching out. Should a suspect eventually be charged and convicted of first-degree premeditated murder, Michigan law under MCL § 750.316 mandates a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, according to Recording Law.
The investigation remains ongoing, and police have not released additional details about the victim or confirmed any further connection between the person of interest and the shooting itself. This is at least the second Detroit shooting case Hoodline has tracked closely this week, underscoring how frequently detectives are still asking east side and west side residents alike to come forward with what they know.
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