Javon Tucker was a 28-year-old construction worker and father of two from Columbus, Ohio, remembered by friends as caring and encouraging. On the afternoon of May 12, 2023, Tucker and another man were ambushed by gunfire after leaving a Dollar Plus on Mount Vernon Avenue in the King-Lincoln Bronzeville neighborhood. Tucker was found unresponsive in a nearby parking lot on Atcheson Street and was pronounced dead at 1:58 p.m. at OhioHealth Grant Medical Center; the other man, 31, sustained only a grazing wound.

Investigators recovered shell casings and reviewed security camera footage that reportedly showed suspects retrieving guns from a vehicle, then waiting behind the store. The video allegedly captured one assailant firing two handguns. Police arrested Davon Robinson shortly after the shooting and apprehended a second suspect, Charles Calaway, in Virginia in June 2023. Both men were charged in connection with Tucker’s death.

If anyone witnessed the shooting or has information about the events that afternoon, please share what is known with investigators.