A longstanding dispute in Van Buren Township, Michigan, ended in a fatal shooting on the evening of April 9, 2014. Eric Williams, a 44-year-old Black man, was shot and killed just before 8 p.m. near a camper at 49170 Michigan Avenue. A single 12-gauge shotgun blast struck Williams in the back; the wound to his torso proved fatal.

The shooter was 74-year-old Kenneth William Coskie, who lived in the camper. Coskie told police that a few days earlier Williams had broken a window in the camper, struck him on the head with a mag light and taken money, and that he feared another attack. Coskie admitted he armed himself and fired when Williams appeared at the camper. Police arrested him at the scene and charged him with first-degree murder and felony firearm. At trial the jury convicted Coskie of the reduced charge of second-degree murder and felony firearm.

Does anyone have information about the relationship between Williams and Coskie or about incidents at that Michigan Avenue camper in the days before the shooting?