A late-night party at a non-operating barbershop on Hall Street in Grand Rapids ended in a deadly shooting on December 21, 2014. About 70 people were at the after-hours gathering when violence erupted around 5:00 a.m.; witnesses and neighbors described the crowd fleeing in panic. Twenty-eight-year-old Black male Nathan Seyfer Moore was struck in the chest by gunfire, transported to a local hospital, and pronounced dead shortly afterward.

The Grand Rapids Police Department began investigating amid the challenge of many potential witnesses but few immediate leads. The shop’s owner was not on the premises during the unauthorized event. Authorities later arrested 32-year-old Darius Keys and said he was tied to the incident and had been at the party, but prosecutors initially charged him only on weapons offenses; no murder charge was filed at arraignment while the homicide investigation remained open.

If anyone at that gathering or nearby that morning has information about what happened, please come forward.