Jemar Phillips, a 35-year-old barber and family man from Erie, Pennsylvania, was shot and killed on February 14, 2016, outside the Last Stop Cafe at West 18th and Raspberry streets in the early evening. Witnesses reported seeing a man later identified as Torriano S. Beard firing multiple rounds at Phillips while wearing a red fur vest. Police recovered that vest and found gunshot residue on it.

Beard was charged with first-degree murder; Erie police testimony at the preliminary hearing included witness accounts that Beard unloaded a revolver into Phillips. Beard was found guilty of first-degree murder on January 20, 2017, and sentenced to life without parole on February 28, 2017. Another man, Lavance Kirksey, 24, was arrested in connection with the case and was awaiting his day in court.

Phillips is remembered by his fiancé, children, siblings and many nieces and nephews.