Daran Adams-Jackson was 22 when he was found dead in his Grand Rapids apartment on the evening of Sunday, October 22, 2017. His girlfriend found him unresponsive at the Cambridge Square Apartments on Mason Street NE after he failed to pick her up from work. Responding medics and police confirmed he had suffered a gunshot wound; an autopsy determined the death to be a homicide.

Investigation led to a suspect, 20-year-old Deandre Lamar-Dante Johnson, who was arrested in January 2018 while already in custody on an unrelated charge. Johnson was charged with homicide–open murder, felon in possession of a firearm, and felony firearm, and was to be charged as a habitual offender. Reports say Johnson and Adams-Jackson had known each other since high school.

A Kent County jury convicted Johnson of second-degree murder in February 2019 and he was sentenced in March 2019 to 40 to 75 years in prison, with concurrent sentences for the firearms-related counts. Does anyone have information about Daran’s life in Grand Rapids or that evening in October 2017?