A family gathering at the Eastgate Apartments in Union City, Tennessee, ended in fatal violence on the evening of April 3, 2021. Marcus Taylor, 25 and a Union City resident, was shot multiple times and taken by private vehicle to Baptist Memorial Hospital, where emergency personnel pronounced him dead at 10:52 p.m.

Union City Police identified the alleged shooter as Taylor’s 23-year-old cousin, Keyshaun Townsend, also of Union City. Investigators say Townsend shot Taylor multiple times; the motive has not been released. Townsend was taken into custody and lodged in the Obion County Jail and was charged with second-degree murder in connection with Taylor’s death.

The case leaves a close-knit community confronting a family tragedy and unanswered questions about what led to the shooting. Does anyone have information about that April 3 gathering or about Marcus’s life in Union City?