On November 9, 2022, a workplace dispute at the Taco Bell on Cochran Road in Scott Township escalated to deadly violence. Thirty-two-year-old employee Dorian Carver argued with his manager, 23-year-old Zairyre Simmons, over a disciplinary write-up. After a physical confrontation in the restaurant vestibule, Carver left and Simmons retrieved a jacket that contained a gun and followed him about 500 feet to the Northwestern Mutual Life insurance building.

Inside the building lobby Simmons shot Carver twice, and Carver died at the scene. A Northwestern Mutual employee witnessed the shooting and identified Simmons. The firearm discarded after the shooting was recovered and later determined to have been reported stolen. Simmons turned himself in later that evening and was charged with criminal homicide, receiving stolen property, and carrying a firearm without a license.

Simmons’ defense at trial argued he acted out of fear and claimed Carver had threatened him. In January 2025 a jury found Simmons guilty of first-degree murder and he was sentenced to life without parole; a judge later granted Simmons a new trial because of a prosecutorial error involving the handling of the stolen-gun charge. Does anyone have information about Carver’s last shift, the confrontation in the vestibule, or witnesses who were nearby that day?