On the evening of August 10, 2021, 27-year-old Devin Hazen was shot and killed on Kalamazoo Avenue in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The shooting followed a dispute and resulted in Hazen’s death.

The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety identified and arrested Phillip Locket Jr. in connection with the shooting. He was charged with open murder and felony firearm possession. A jury later convicted Locket of second-degree murder, carrying a firearm with unlawful intent, and felony firearm.

At sentencing Locket was ordered to serve 30 to 60 years for second-degree murder, a consecutive two-year sentence for the felony firearm count, and 40 to 60 months for carrying a firearm with unlawful intent, with the sentences to run concurrently.

If anyone witnessed the August 10, 2021 shooting or has information about the dispute that led to Devin Hazen’s death, please come forward.