On the evening of Tuesday, June 27, 2023, a dispute in the 500 block of May Street in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, ended when 38-year-old Derek Anthony Mayo of Parkesburg was shot once in the chest and later pronounced dead at Pottstown Hospital. An autopsy ruled the death a homicide from a single gunshot wound to the chest.

Mayo had accompanied his longtime girlfriend, Kelsay Love-Shellar, to the home of her ex-boyfriend, 34-year-old Kevin Morgan, to pick up the couple’s 12-year-old daughter. Witnesses said a verbal argument between Mayo and Morgan near the back of Love-Shellar’s car did not become physical.

Police found Mayo beside the passenger side of a Kia Optima. Morgan called 911, remained at the scene and was taken into custody; a search of his home turned up five legally owned firearms. Morgan was charged with first-degree murder, third-degree murder, possessing an instrument of crime, reckless endangerment of another person, and endangering the welfare of a child, and was held without bail pending a preliminary hearing.

If anyone witnessed the confrontation that led to Mayo’s death or has information about the events that evening, please share what you know.