Enrique Straughter was an 18-year-old senior at Reynoldsburg High School who was fatally shot on April 15, 2016, near his apartment in the 2100 block of Lavenham Road in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. He enjoyed playing basketball at the local recreation center.

Investigators identified 17-year-old Damon L. Taylor as a suspect after police found Taylor’s mother’s car — which Taylor had taken without permission — abandoned near the shooting. A key fob from that car and a fragment of a handgun recovered at the scene tested with Straughter’s blood and Taylor’s DNA. Taylor was tried as an adult in Franklin County Common Pleas Court; in 2019 a jury convicted him of murder with a gun specification, and he was found guilty of committing the murder while engaging in felonious assault. The court sentenced him to life with no chance of parole for 18 years.

An appeal reached the Ohio Supreme Court after the 10th District Court of Appeals overturned the murder conviction on procedural grounds related to juvenile binding-over rules; that appeal was pending. If anyone knew Enrique, his routines, or saw activity near Lavenham Road on April 15, 2016, please share what was seen.