Darien Berry was a 28-year-old father from Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, remembered by friends and family as D.Cruz and DayDay and described as a rapper, singer, and artist who worked to provide for his family. On the evening of September 9, 2021, he was outside the Pennwood Market on Glenwood Avenue in north Minneapolis talking with two other men near a vehicle when a man approached and opened fire. Surveillance footage showed Berry clutching his chest after being shot; he tried to run into the store, then toward the vehicle before collapsing.

A witness returned fire as the shooter fled, then put Berry into a vehicle and took him to Hennepin County Medical Center. Berry died of a gunshot wound to the torso at 3:15 a.m. on September 10, 2021. Police found several spent cartridge casings at the market and about nine minutes after the shooting a man with multiple gunshot wounds arrived at the same hospital wearing clothing that matched the shooter in the footage. The suspect was identified as 21-year-old Tyreese Giles of Minneapolis and was charged with second-degree murder; the case was then proceeding through the court system.

Does anyone have information about Berry’s last hours at the Pennwood Market or saw the vehicle he and the others were near?