Tyquan Keeshawn Hawkins-Scruggs was 20 when he was shot and killed inside a South Side duplex in Columbus, Ohio, on April 27, 2017. After being mortally wounded, he was carried outside and left near the sidewalk on East Barthman Avenue. Those present at the scene did not witness the shooting and refused to cooperate with police, a fact that investigators noted as a complicating factor.

A 19-year-old, Devin M. Tirey, was arrested and charged in connection with the killing. Tirey later pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter with a gun specification, saying Hawkins-Scruggs had tried to rob him of drugs and money and that a struggle ended when Tirey grabbed a gun and fired while fleeing. Tirey was sentenced to 22 years in prison; the case was recorded as Columbus’s 42nd homicide that year.

Anyone who knew Tyquan or was in the South Side neighborhood around East Barthman Avenue on April 27, 2017, is asked to come forward with information.