Jaylin Mazel McGowan was fatally shot at the River Trace Apartments in northeast Memphis during the late hours of Friday, September 9, 2016. He was 20 and a 2014 graduate of Craigmont High School, later attending Southwest Community College and working at a Big Lots in Millington.

Family remembered him as someone who could be funny with friends and sometimes quiet; his mother is Sharon Willis-McGowan and his father is Mazel McGowan. The shooting has been described as part of the broader problem of gun violence in the area.

If anyone knew Jaylin, was at River Trace Apartments that night, or has information that could help, please share what is known.