Isaac Matthew Thomas was a 35-year-old Black man from Zanesville, Ohio, who died after being shot the night of January 22, 2014 and succumbing to his wounds at Genesis Good Samaritan Hospital on January 23, 2014. Police responded about 9 p.m. to the 400 block of Spangler Drive after a report of a gunshot; a witness said a man ran from a residence and fell while another person ran away. Thomas suffered a close-range gunshot wound to the chest and was rushed to the hospital, where he died.

Court records say Thomas had been released from jail earlier on January 22 and went to the home of Chad Morrison, where he allegedly took Morrison’s firearm. Later that evening an argument with Morrison escalated into a physical confrontation and Anthony Sosa Wilson stood up and shot Thomas in the chest. Morrison, Wilson and Adam Rogers left together; testimony at Morrison’s trial described Morrison giving Wilson money and drugs and being given the gun before Wilson exited the vehicle. Morrison was acquitted of murder but convicted of two counts of obstructing justice and a weapons-under-disability offense and was sentenced to 60 months in prison.

Thomas left behind a mother, siblings and three children, including a son, Maddox, who was about 10 months old.