Michael Jerome Young, 31, was shot and killed on September 3, 2019, in Del City, Oklahoma while trying to peacefully resolve a dispute between his younger brother and another young man. According to accounts, Young intervened to de-escalate an argument and was shot twice; witnesses reported the suspect’s mother encouraged her son to shoot. Young was a Del City High School graduate, a father of three, and volunteered with troubled teens, and those who knew him described his death as a senseless crime.

Del City police arrested 19-year-old Tavares Young on complaints of murder and shooting with intent to kill, and authorities took 31-year-old Felicia Good Blazing Gil into custody on a complaint of accessory after the fact; officials said the victim and the suspect were not related. Family and friends held a memorial at Regional Park in Midwest City and released balloons in his memory.