On the night of June 26, 2018, 45-year-old Jack Wilson was shot on Oxford Street near its intersection with Elm Street in Portland, Maine, after a heated argument. A police officer near a nearby homeless shelter heard the shot, found Wilson with a gunshot wound to the stomach, and he was taken to a hospital. Wilson died of his injuries on July 3, 2018; an autopsy ruled his death a homicide caused by the gunshot trauma.

Police identified 19-year-old Tyrese Collins as a suspect. Collins, who was already in custody at the Cumberland County Jail on a probation violation, was arrested and charged in connection with Wilson’s death. He pleaded not guilty to murder in September 2018 but later pleaded guilty to manslaughter in September 2019; in January 2020 a judge sentenced him to 10 years, with all but six and a half years suspended, plus four years of probation. The shooting was one of several violent incidents in the Bayside neighborhood that summer and led to an increased police presence there.

Did anyone in the Bayside area witness the confrontation on Oxford Street that night or have information about the events leading up to the shooting?