Marcus Leonard Pierce Sr., known to family as Marc G, was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting on May 14, 2023, in the 500 block of Ada Street in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He was 33. Two other people at the scene, a 58-year-old woman and a 22-year-old man, were injured in the same attack. Pierce’s family remembered him as outgoing and devoted to spending time with his children.

The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety led an investigation that crossed state lines. By October 2023 authorities had arrested 18-year-old Andrew Johnson of Kalamazoo and arraigned him on charges including open murder; bond was denied. A separate defendant, 19-year-old Demario Deonte Jackson, later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received a prison term of 18 to 50 years.

In March 2025 a third suspect, 23-year-old Dontaviour Lawrel Smith, was located in Atlanta, Georgia, and taken into custody on a nine-count felony warrant that included open murder and assault with intent to murder; multiple firearms, drugs, and money were seized and extradition back to Michigan was pending. Does anyone have information about Marcus, the Ada Street neighborhood, or the events that night?