Nineteen-year-old Laryus Dottery was shot and killed on the evening of May 14, 2022, near the BP Dairy Mart on Textile Road in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Officers investigating the scene treated the death as a homicide.

An 18-year-old, Davion Christopher Brooks, became a person of interest after he sought medical treatment for a gunshot wound sustained during the same incident. Brooks was taken into custody and charged with open murder and firearms offenses in connection with Dottery’s death. Brooks later pleaded no contest to second-degree murder.

During Brooks’s sentencing on January 19, 2023, emotional victim impact statements were followed by a large altercation inside the Washtenaw County courtroom that required police intervention.

If anyone knew Laryus or has information about what happened that night near the BP Dairy Mart, please come forward.