Bobby Lyons, a 17-year-old Black male, was shot the night of July 7, 2023. Columbus police responded at 9:41 p.m. to the 1200 block of Gazebo Way at Arbor Pointe Apartments and found him with gunshot wounds. He was taken to Piedmont Columbus Regional and died the next morning; Deputy Coroner Elizabeth Allison pronounced him dead at 9:02 a.m. on July 8, 2023.

The Columbus Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit investigated the shooting. In June 2024 investigators identified Aquiles Saunders as a suspect and obtained a murder warrant. On March 14, 2025 Saunders was arrested in North Carolina by the U.S. Marshals, extradited to Columbus, and charged with murder; police said more arrests were pending. Subsequent reports named Jaylen Paige as a second person charged in Lyons’ death, with Paige already in custody on a separate murder charge when the new charge was announced.

Who knew Bobby or was in the Arbor Pointe area that night and can help fill in what happened?