On the morning of September 28, 2023, 35-year-old Tyrone Jerome Potts was fatally shot outside a Circle K at Lovell Street and Oakland Drive in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The shooting happened around 11 a.m.; Potts was taken to a local hospital in critical condition and died shortly afterward. Another man sustained multiple gunshot wounds and survived.

Investigators treated the incident as not a random act and searched for a white Dodge Journey seen leaving the scene. Plate readers, cameras and phone tracking were used in the investigation, which led to the identification of 31-year-old Brendan James Smith. Smith was arrested on October 16, 2023; his vehicle was impounded and he was charged in connection with the shooting.

Potts was a father of five, remembered by family as cheerful, a dancer who liked to make people laugh, and someone who worked on cars and homes and had started his own business. Does anyone have information about that morning or about Potts’ routines in the neighborhood?