On June 3, 2015, 19-year-old Tyrone Eric Lyles was found in the middle of 15th Avenue North in Minneapolis, between Irving and Humboldt avenues, suffering a fatal gunshot wound to the chest. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide. Lyles, a Richfield resident, was located near North High School; authorities said the school was not involved in the incident. Investigators treated the shooting as targeted rather than random and later connected it to a drug deal that had gone wrong.

Police focused on 21-year-old Brion Quantrial Overton and issued a warrant describing him as armed and dangerous; a $1 million bail was later set. Overton was arrested in St. Paul the day after the shooting on a weapons charge and released on bond. DNA testing tied a gun seized at that arrest to Lyles’s murder: Overton’s DNA was on the trigger and Lyles’s DNA was on the muzzle. Overton and his cousin Shyheim Jiles were tried together on first-degree murder charges; Jiles was acquitted, and jurors deadlocked on Overton. Was anyone in the area that night aware of a dispute or drug activity near 15th Avenue North?