Ty’Shawn Maurice Lyons, 20, was shot in the head just after 2:30 a.m. on December 3, 2023, while with friends in a parking lot near West Lake Street and Grand Avenue South in Minneapolis. He was taken to Hennepin Healthcare with life-threatening injuries and died on December 6, 2023; the Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide by gunshot wound to the head.

Authorities have tied the killing into a broader federal probe of a violent rivalry between two Minneapolis street gangs known as the Lows and the Highs. Lyons is identified as a member or associate of the Lows. Federal agents arrested an alleged fellow Lows member, Ramone Dizahn Jackson, and an ATF affidavit says video shows Jackson firing a gun during the drive-by. It has not been specified that Jackson fired the shot that killed Lyons. Jackson faces federal charges in the larger investigation, including fentanyl distribution and firearm offenses.

Lyons was also identified as a person of interest in a separate November 6, 2023, targeted ambush that left one man dead; another person has been charged in that earlier killing. As of early 2024, no arrests have been announced specifically for Lyons’s murder and the investigation remains active.

If anyone was in that parking lot that night or has information about the shooting, please share what is known with investigators.