On the evening of April 17, 2021, 23-year-old Dylan Lovell was shot while riding in a car on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee. One of them, later identified as 16-year-old Dorian Seay, allegedly tried to snatch some play money Lovell was holding; when that failed, Seay reportedly produced a gun and shot Lovell in the chest. Lovell’s friend drove toward nearby police officers for help, and Lovell was taken to a hospital but died of his injuries.

Lovell was originally from Marion, Arkansas. The Memphis Police Department investigated the shooting, and Seay was arrested. By February 2022 a Shelby County grand jury had indicted Seay, then 17, on first-degree murder, attempted especially aggravated robbery, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon; prosecutors chose to charge him as an adult and he was held without bond.

If anyone was on Beale Street that night or has information about the confrontation that led to this shooting, please share what you know.