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Tajuan J. Patterson was 20 and from Columbus when he was fatally shot on June 11, 2016. The shooting occurred around 3:39 p.m. in the 2100 block of Willamont Avenue on Columbus’s North Side on a Saturday afternoon.

Columbus Police identified 35-year-old Rahshee Shaw of Columbus as the suspect after investigators said a verbal disagreement between Shaw and Patterson escalated into a deadly confrontation. The killing devastated Patterson’s family and drew attention locally to gun violence and its consequences for neighborhoods in Columbus.

If anyone witnessed the incident on Willamont Avenue that afternoon or has information about what led up to the shooting, please share what is known with investigators.