On October 27, 2023, a shooting at a Halloween party held at an Airbnb on Ferndale Avenue in Mansfield, Ohio, left two teenagers dead: 17-year-old Jarmel Deaunte Boyd and 18-year-old Brandon Collins. Four other people, aged 14 to 19, were wounded in the same incident. Authorities said the shooting arose from a dispute between two local gangs.

Mansfield police arrested 22-year-old Cyrus Jalyn Ellerbe on November 8, 2023, charging him with multiple counts of murder and felonious assault; his bond was set at $5 million. The two deaths were recorded as the city’s 10th and 11th homicides in 2023, a notable rise in Mansfield’s violent crime total that year.

Anyone who attended the party or has information about the events on Ferndale Avenue that night is asked to come forward.