Seventeen-year-old Temetrion Hegler was shot and killed at his Kalamazoo residence on January 6, 2016. A senior at Loy Norrix High School who planned to study athletic training at Michigan State University, Hegler was found by police with a gunshot wound to the head and pronounced dead at the scene. He had been living with his grandmother, Iquilla Hegler, and her husband.

Police say the shooter was Hegler’s step-grandfather, Bruce Embry. Officers report Embry was present and unarmed when they arrived, immediately confessed, and a 25-caliber handgun was recovered in a bedroom. The reported motive was an argument after Hegler overheard his step-grandfather on the phone with another woman and told his grandmother.

Embry was charged in the killing; jurors convicted him of first-degree murder in July 2016 and he received a life without parole sentence. The case sparked high emotions at sentencing, including a courtroom altercation during a victim impact statement. Does anyone have memories of Temetrion or information about the family that could shed more light on what happened that day?