Getting Justice For Jeremy

A fundraiser hosted by local organization Justice For Jeremy will be held at 6 p.m. May 4 at the restaurant Memphis Smoke in Royal Oak.

The purpose of the fundraiser is to help fund the private investigation into the murder of Jeremy Brent Waggoner, a well-known Royal Oak hairstylist who was brutally murdered in Detroit in 2008. The funds raised will also be used to build a reward fund.

Waggoner was a hairstylist at Michael Angelo Hair Salon in Royal Oak who lived with his partner of seven years in a home just east of Indian Village, Detroit. The 37-year-old openly gay man had the day off of work on June 9, 2008 and had just spoken to a co-worker in what was purported to be …