Jason Mayhew, 36, was shot and killed on June 21, 2025, in Worcester, Massachusetts. Emergency responders found him on the sidewalk along Southgate Street near the Southgate Apartment Building with multiple gunshot wounds; he was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead a short time later. Reports say an argument that began at or near the apartment building escalated onto the street and ended in the fatal shooting.

The Worcester Police Department opened a homicide investigation that led to the arrest of 26-year-old Antonio Canales-Martinez of Worcester. Canales-Martinez was initially charged with armed assault to murder and assault and battery with a firearm; a Worcester County grand jury later indicted him for manslaughter. At arraignment in Worcester Superior Court he pleaded not guilty and was ordered held on $100,000 cash bail.

Mayhew was remembered as a devoted family man and a heavy equipment operator. A lifelong Massachusetts native born in Framingham and raised in Wrentham, he lived in Worcester and is survived by two sons, a fiancée, and two future stepsons. If anyone has information about the argument or the events around Southgate Street that evening, please share what is known.