On the late afternoon of May 18, 2021, 29-year-old Jovaughn Antonio Mills, a Black man from Fall River, Massachusetts, was shot near Griffin Park. Just before 4:30 p.m., multiple 911 calls reported gunfire; when first responders arrived they found several victims on the sidewalk by the park’s black fencing. Mills was one of two people with apparent gunshot wounds and was taken to Saint Anne’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The shooting, which occurred in broad daylight, also killed 14-year-old Miguel Sanjurjo and wounded a 19-year-old man. Fall River Police and Massachusetts State Police detectives from the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office investigated, using nearby video surveillance to reconstruct the events. Several arrests have been announced: Jeremy Holmes, 18 at the time of the shooting, was identified as a primary suspect and charged with two counts of murder, assault and battery with a firearm, and illegal possession of a firearm. Dana Mazyck was arrested on May 25, 2021, on charges related to the illegal discharge of a firearm, and Tajon Saxon was charged as an accessory after the fact in connection with the deaths.

What information about Mills, his routine, or his movements that afternoon could help clarify what happened near Griffin Park?