Jaylen Kinney was 24 when he was shot on March 23, 2017, his birthday, in Hamilton, Ohio. He was taken to Fort Hamilton Hospital but died of his injuries; the Hamilton Police Department ruled the death a homicide and opened an investigation.

Detectives identified 30-year-old Marquis Hunter as a suspect; he was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 19, 2017, with U.S. Marshals’ help and charged with murder and weapons under disability. The investigation and trial record noted Hunter had a 2010 felonious assault conviction and that he had been shot in the leg in February 2017 outside the Hard Times bar, an incident reportedly involving Kinney and another person.

On October 26, 2017, Hunter pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter with a gun specification and received a 15-year sentence. Kinney’s family and friends continue to remember him.