On March 4, 2024, at about 4:30 p.m., deputies responded to multiple calls of gunfire at Eastwood Meadows Apartments in Gainesville, Florida. Officers found 24-year-old Tyren E. Certain slumped inside a dark-colored sedan near the mailboxes and he died from injuries sustained in the shooting.

Eighteen-year-old Terrell Nicholos Weeks was arrested and charged with first-degree homicide in connection with Certain’s death. Weeks has juvenile convictions from 2020 to 2022, was on probation for possession of a firearm by an adjudicated delinquent, has three misdemeanor convictions and a pending misdemeanor sworn complaint. A judge ordered Weeks held without bail for violating probation and set bail at $50,000 on the new charge.

Reports also tie Weeks to a drive-by shooting in Gainesville around Easter 2023 in which he was reportedly in the backseat of a stolen dark grey Hyundai Sonata and multiple firearms were used. The case raises questions about gun violence, rehabilitation and the justice system’s handling of repeat young offenders. If anyone has information about Tyren Certain, the shooting, or the earlier incidents involving the vehicle, please share what is known.