Da’Meko Taborn was a 16-year-old Black male known to friends and family as Meko. He died on the afternoon of May 14, 2025, after Springfield police found a black SUV that had struck a house at South Limestone Street and East Euclid Avenue; inside the vehicle Da’Meko had suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene. Family and community members held a balloon release and remembered him as an inspiring young man whose life was taken far too soon.

Police treated the killing as connected to a separate shooting about 20 minutes later a few blocks away in the 200 block of East Euclid Avenue, where a man was found with multiple gunshot wounds and later released from hospital. Investigators identified that man as 18-year-old Darius Q. Lewis, who was arrested out of state and returned to Springfield to face charges. Lewis went to trial in October 2026 and was found not guilty of murder; as of October 2026 Da’Meko’s homicide remained unsolved.

Does anyone in Springfield have information about what happened on East Euclid Avenue that afternoon or remember seeing Da’Meko that day?