Taylor James Lall, 25, was shot and killed on the evening of May 24, 2021, in an alley behind Jan’s Party Store at 603 Garfield Avenue on Bay City’s east side. Officers from the Bay City Department of Public Safety found Lall with a fatal gunshot wound at about 9:50 p.m.; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Bay County Sheriff’s Department and Michigan State Police assisted as detectives processed the alley and began investigating the homicide.

Born January 3, 1996, in Las Vegas, Lall had lived most of his life in Bay City and was known to friends and family as 5 Top. He was the father of two children, Mia Rena Davenport and Akilles James Davenport, and was survived by his father Michael Fischer, his sister Tiffany Weigandt, and other relatives; his mother, Rena Davenport Lall, preceded him in death. Investigators identified and arrested two persons of interest in connection with the killing, with no further details released in initial reports.

Did anyone in Bay City have information about Taylor’s movements that night or know more about what happened behind Jan’s Party Store?