Isaiah Christopher Lee Walton-Davis, known as Zay, was 20 when he was shot in South Bend on July 30, 2024. Police responded to a ShotSpotter alert in the 3600 block of Sample Street and found Walton-Davis with gunshot wounds; he later died from his injuries. Born January 17, 2004, in Gary, Indiana, he had moved with his family to South Bend, attended Lincoln Elementary, Marshall Middle School and Adams High School, and had recently returned after time in Indianapolis. Friends and family remember him as close to his family, a basketball player and a creative who produced music as Spazzout Zxe and pursued photography and lyric writing.

Authorities identified and arrested 18-year-old Cyjarron Odynski on August 2 and charged him with murder in connection with the shooting. The case drew wider attention because Odynski had escaped from a juvenile justice outing to a South Bend Cubs game four days before the killing, prompting criticism of the St. Joseph County Probate Court’s Bridge Link Program and calls from local Republican leaders for the resignation of the judge who oversaw the Juvenile Justice Center.

If anyone knew Isaiah, his movements that summer, or has information about the shooting, please come forward.