Marcus Allen Burkett was 23 when he was killed in Pontiac, Michigan, in the early hours of July 3, 2017. A tattoo artist known as Merk and a student planning to attend Oakland Community College that fall, he left behind a daughter, Taylor, and a grieving family.

The shooting happened about 4 a.m. in the 50 block of Thorpe Street at a gathering that turned violent during an attempted armed robbery. The incident became a quadruple shooting; Marcus was fatally wounded and three others — a 17-year-old female, a 17-year-old male, and a 19-year-old male — were injured and survived.

The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office identified and arrested a 19-year-old suspect, William Nelson, who was also injured that morning. He was charged with open murder in Marcus’s death, two counts of possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and assault with intent to murder for the wounded survivors, and was arraigned and held without bond.

Did anyone who knew Marcus or was at that Thorpe Street gathering that night see something that could help clarify what happened?