Timothy Perkins, a 20-year-old Black man from Aberdeen, Ohio, was shot multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene on October 1, 2021, at 2222 Eck Court in Portsmouth. He was a self-employed roofer, a father to several children, and was remembered by family and community members as ambitious, outgoing, loyal and kind. The location where he was killed had drawn prior reports of suspicious activity.

Portsmouth police and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Identification treated the death as a homicide. Authorities later identified 21-year-old Portsmouth resident Tyriq Taylor as a suspect; Taylor was arrested in Columbus on December 20, 2021, and was indicted by a Scioto County grand jury on aggravated murder charges. Perkins’ funeral service was held October 11, 2021, at Ware Funeral Home in Chillicothe, with burial later at Locust Grove Cemetery.

Did anyone in the area know Perkins, his movements that night, or have information about activity at 2222 Eck Court?