On the evening of Friday, October 22, 2021, 30-year-old Demarcus Javon Brown was shot on the 200 block of Highland Street SE in Grand Rapids, Michigan, near the intersection of Highland Street and Cass Avenue. The shooting occurred at approximately 9:15 p.m. Emergency responders took Brown to a nearby hospital, where he later died; the Grand Rapids Police Department ruled his death a homicide.

Police opened an investigation and asked the public for help identifying suspects and providing information about what led to the shooting. For a period the case remained under active investigation with no suspect information released. On December 19, 2022, Cordney Dashawn Toliver, also 30, pleaded no contest to a six-count warrant that included an open murder charge in Brown’s death; Toliver had been jailed on unrelated charges when the homicide charge was filed and was scheduled for sentencing in January.

If anyone has information about the shooting on Highland Street on October 22, 2021, please share what you know with Grand Rapids police.