On July 26, 2016, a workplace dispute at the Grand Oaks Apartments leasing office in Grand Blanc ended in gunfire that killed 45-year-old leasing agent Tamara Johnson. According to accounts, resident Jacquelyne Tyson entered the office after a brief exchange about perceived toxins in her apartment, produced a revolver, and shot Johnson in the head. A coworker, Lyric Work, who was eight months pregnant, was also shot and later died; medical staff delivered her baby girl, who survived.

Eyewitnesses described a chaotic scene in the clubhouse, and a superintendent who responded smelled gunpowder and found Johnson wounded. Tyson was arrested for the killings; she was initially found incompetent to stand trial and treated at a state psychiatric hospital before being restored to competency. In a non-jury trial that concluded in 2019, Tyson was convicted of second-degree murder in Tamara Johnson’s death and received two life sentences without the possibility of parole.

If anyone knew Tamara Johnson, worked at Grand Oaks, or has information about that afternoon, please share what is remembered.