Jaylan Deshun Talley Sumerall was 19 when he was shot and killed during an attempted robbery on the evening of September 30, 2018, at the Summit Apartments on Summit Arbors Circle in Memphis. After a brief struggle he was rushed to Baptist East Memorial Hospital and pronounced dead on arrival. The case initially had no arrests while police appealed to the public for information.

Sumerall was a Bolton High School graduate who scored 26 on the ACT, attended Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi, and had recently returned to Memphis after earning a real estate certification from Harris Realty School. Family and friends remembered him as bright, ambitious, and a basketball fan. Several months into the investigation, Rayshun Townsend was arrested at his workplace and charged with first-degree murder in connection with Sumerall’s death.

Does anyone have information about Jaylan’s last evening at the Summit Apartments or knew him while he was back in Memphis?