On the morning of April 3, 2023, 46-year-old Lavell Quinney was shot on the porch of a Detroit home after a friendly argument with a 14-year-old boy who had been a guest. The teenager reportedly left the porch during the disagreement, went inside, took a gun belonging to someone in the house, returned and shot Quinney. Paramedics transported Quinney to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Quinney’s family described him as a loving, compassionate, and brave pillar of their household and said they were exhausted by repeated gun violence on their block; another relative had been shot and killed there three years earlier. Family members said the alleged shooter was loosely known to Quinney. Police launched an investigation and were searching for the 14-year-old and for anyone who had been with Quinney before the shooting. Quinney had been released from parole just days before his death.

If anyone was with Quinney that night or has information about the boy who returned to the porch with a gun, please come forward to investigators.