Family still pleads for answers 14 years after Marvin Monroe found dead outside abandoned building

DETROIT (AP) Back in June 2011, Jeanise Monroe had just graduated from college. She saw her uncle that day. They celebrated together. By the next day, she and her family were in mourning.

Marvin Earl Monroe, just 46, was found shot to death outside an abandoned home near Chalmers and Frankfort on Detroit’s east side. Fourteen years later, his family still doesn’t know who killed him — or why.

“We miss him, it’s been a long journey. We haven’t given up,” Jeanise said back in 2017, when the family made another plea through Crime Stoppers.

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