On the morning of March 9, 2023, 27-year-old Devon Michael Adams of Hugo was shot and killed in a Cub Foods parking lot in Fridley, Minnesota, after intervening in what he believed was a domestic dispute. Adams was eating a sandwich in his truck around 11 a.m. when he overheard a woman screaming for help and went to assist. Following a verbal altercation, as Adams was walking away he was shot in the chest. He was taken to North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale, where he later died. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled the manner of death a homicide, with the cause listed as a gunshot wound to the chest.

Adams owned a tree-trimming business and family described him as having a big heart, always willing to lend a hand, and as a peaceful person who was on the autism spectrum. Investigators identified two suspects and, one week after the killing, charged 32-year-old Johnson Kenny Sirleaf of Plymouth with second-degree murder and 29-year-old Blanyon Davies of Brooklyn Park with aiding an offender. Surveillance footage and phone records reportedly linked a red SUV to the incident and connected the men to the scene. If anyone witnessed the shooting or knew Devon, have information to share with investigators?