On the evening of September 9, 2021, gunfire erupted at the Clientele Barbershop on 42nd Avenue North in north Minneapolis. Jaylen Terell Salter, 19, known to family and friends as Duke and a Patrick Henry High School graduate, was inside the shop when several masked individuals walked past and opened fire into the business at about 6:17 p.m. Salter was struck by multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Two other people were hurt: a man grazed by a bullet and a woman shot in the leg while getting her young son’s hair cut. Both sustained non-life-threatening injuries and went to a nearby hospital. Salter’s family has endured multiple prior homicides in recent years, including the earlier deaths of his brother Brandon and their father. The Minneapolis Police Department opened a homicide investigation, but no arrests or suspect identities have been released.