Adam Eckmyre Barnett was 18 when he was shot on the late morning of Sunday, October 20, 2019, in the 100 block of West Fairfield in northeast Lansing. Officers found Barnett wounded by a gunshot shortly after 11 a.m.; he was rushed to a local hospital and was pronounced dead there. He was born December 8, 2000, in Owosso, Michigan, and visitation and funeral arrangements were held in Lansing.

Police said the shooting did not appear to be random and that there was no ongoing threat to the public. Investigators quickly identified and located those involved. Nine days after the shooting, a Lansing teenager, Anthony Gonzalo Gonzales, turned himself in and was arraigned on a charge of Weapons–Firearms–Careless Discharge Causing Injury or Death. Gonzales later entered a guilty plea and the case was set for sentencing in Ingham County Circuit Court on March 18.

If anyone knew Adam, who he spent time with that morning, or has information about what led to the fatal discharge, please share what is known.