Tajuan Thunder Williams, 27, was fatally shot on the evening of February 1, 2019, during an altercation at a child’s birthday party on Muldrow Street in Mexico, Missouri. According to accounts, Williams was struck as he ran away from the confrontation; the killing devastated friends and family who remembered him as a son, brother, mentor, and friend.

Investigators identified two teenage brothers, Demetric and Trebion Dorsey, as defendants. Demetric, 17 at the time, was found to have fired the fatal shot. Trebion, also 17, was present and implicated in the chain of events that led to the shooting, though he was not the shooter. The Audrain County Prosecuting Attorney charged both teens and pursued consequences for the firearm-related crime.

By December 2020 the Dorsey brothers were sentenced: Demetric received 10 years for first-degree involuntary manslaughter and a concurrent 15-year term for armed criminal action; Trebion received five years with eligibility for probation after completing a 120-day shock incarceration program. Did anyone at the party or in the neighborhood notice anything before the altercation began?