In the early hours of Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 22-year-old Marquan Whitiker was shot in the head outside a residence in the 800 block of Woodward Avenue in north Toledo. Police found Whitiker at about 1 a.m.; he was taken to a hospital and died of his injuries. He did not live at the home and had been attending a small party there before the shooting.

By the afternoon of the same day, Toledo police had identified 33-year-old Raheem Nicholson as a person of interest and issued a warrant charging him with murder and felonious assault in connection with Whitiker’s death. Nicholson was taken into custody the following week and made an initial appearance in Toledo Municipal Court on Tuesday, June 16, 2026; bond was set at $1.1 million. He also received a 180-day sentence at the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio for unrelated drug charges from late 2025. The investigation remains active and the homicide case is at an early stage in court.

If anyone attended the party or has information about what happened on Woodward Avenue that night, please come forward with tips.