Ishmael Haywood was a 20-year-old African American man from San Antonio who was fatally shot on March 8, 2016. He and four others were ambushed in the 500 block of Larry Street in what police described as a nonrandom, likely gang-related attack. Haywood and 17-year-old Demontray Keshawn Mackay were killed; three other men — Chrishawn King, 19, John Nelson, 21, and Gino Reece, 22 — survived with injuries.

Police characterized the shooter as a thin black man armed with an assault rifle and described the vehicle’s driver as a heavy black man or woman who wore glasses. Haywood’s mother, Rolanda Shelton, remembered him as a jokester and the life of the party and launched a GoFundMe to help cover funeral expenses because he had no life insurance. The San Antonio Police Department is investigating and seeking tips.