Carl McIntire, known as CJ, is reported dead in Detroit in connection with a web of violence surrounding Edward Charles‑Montique Hicks. Court documents from Hicks’s later trial for conspiracy to murder his own mother stipulated that McIntire was deceased.

Prosecutors at that trial suggested McIntire’s death could be linked to a motive to silence him and hide Hicks’s involvement in the earlier homicide, but the court found some of that questioning improper because it risked prejudicing the jury. McIntire’s cousin, Daniel Brooks, gave a police statement accusing Hicks of murdering McIntire. Beyond those implications, specific facts about how and when McIntire died are not extensively publicized.

If anybody knew Carl McIntire, his movements, associates, or has information about his death, please share what can help investigators or researchers following this case.