On the morning of April 6, 2023, 23-year-old Jadonn Taylor was fatally shot in the parking lot of a Target on Suburban Avenue in Saint Paul while shopping for Easter gifts with his fiancée. After noticing a suspicious Chrysler 300 with tinted windows, they went into the store; upon returning to their Mazda a man approached and opened fire. Taylor was struck multiple times and, despite CPR from paramedics, was pronounced dead at the scene with gunshot wounds to his wrist, shoulder, chest, neck, and the back of his head. His fiancée was not injured and drove him under a half-mile to a fire station for help.

Investigators described the shooting as brazen and connected it to gang rivalry. Police arrested 25-year-old Thomas Derek Coleman on second-degree murder and second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon charges after identifying a suspect from surveillance footage showing the shooter approaching the vehicle, firing multiple rounds, and fleeing on foot. Authorities say the Chrysler 300 used in the incident was registered to the suspect’s girlfriend and was recovered a few hours later. Family and investigators told police Taylor had been anxious and paranoid in the days before the killing, allegedly after a friend was charged in a separate homicide; authorities say the killing appears retaliatory.

If anyone was at the Target that morning or has information about the Chrysler 300 or movements in that parking lot, please come forward.