Devontay Stanton, 23, was shot and killed inside a home on the 2600 block of Audubon Road in Columbus, Ohio on July 24, 2020. Police found Stanton and he was taken to Grant Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. The slaying was counted as Columbus’s 73rd homicide of 2020.

A suspect, 23-year-old Jaylon Walker, was arrested on August 15, 2020, and charged with murder, felonious assault, kidnapping, and improper discharge of a firearm into a habitation. Walker also faced charges in unrelated incidents for robbery and grand theft of a firearm. In December 2021, Walker was convicted on all charges except for intimidation of a witness, for which he was acquitted. In January 2022, Walker was sentenced to 41 years to life in prison for Stanton’s murder.

Stanton’s family and friends remembered him as someone who made everyone around him happy. Does anyone have information about Stanton’s life or the events that night that could add to the record?