Todd Taylor, a 42-year-old African American man from Joliet, Illinois, was fatally shot four times in the upper body while seated inside a parked vehicle on Oscar Avenue near Gardner Street on Joliet’s east side on January 29, 2022. The shooting occurred outside the city limits, so the Will County Sheriff’s Office is leading the investigation. Taylor lived on the 600 block of Elmwood Avenue in Joliet.

Investigators have not announced any arrests, suspects, or motives in the elder Taylor’s death. The case is linked by family to an earlier homicide: his 20-year-old son, also named Todd Taylor, was shot to death in a driveway on Grant Avenue in Joliet on April 28, 2020. That younger Taylor lived in Rockdale. The Joliet Police Department arrested 24-year-old Dartavius Payton of Lockport in connection with the 2020 killing; Payton was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon and was held on $2.5 million bail.

Does anyone have information about the January 29, 2022 shooting or remember seeing a vehicle on Oscar Avenue near Gardner Street that evening?