Breon Williams, a 27-year-old Black man, was killed in Battle Creek, Michigan, in the early hours of August 9, 2015, after a passing car rolled through the Park Hill neighborhood and gunfire shattered the night. He was standing near the intersection of Hanover Street and Walters Avenue, close enough to the street that the shooter did not have to leave the vehicle to reach him. A single chest wound was fatal.

The night before the killing, a group that included Jermaine Leon Jones, Dezmen Roshea Jones, Jlin Cannon, and Kyle Epps had been at a local nightclub where Jermaine Jones had a brief unfriendly encounter with Williams. According to court testimony, Jermaine Jones pushed the group to look for Williams afterward. With Cannon driving and using Epps’s tan Pontiac Bonneville, they cruised Park Hill until they found Williams; shots came from the rear passenger side of the Bonneville. Witnesses helped identify the vehicle, and three men were arrested on August 21, 2015.

Prosecutors later described Jermaine Jones as the organizer who encouraged and assisted the killing and identified Dezmen Jones as the shooter. Both men were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole; additional weapons convictions and penalties were imposed against Dezmen Jones. Does anyone have memories of the Park Hill neighborhood that night or information that could add detail to what happened?