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DeQuarius DeeDee Love was 17 when he was killed in a drive-by shooting in Muskegon Heights, Michigan, on August 21, 2014. A student-athlete at Muskegon Heights Academy High School, he was walking with a friend to a neighborhood party when a van passed and shots were fired; he was found at the corner of Peck Street and Hume Avenue just before 12:30 a.m., having been shot in the back. His death came four days before he was due to start his senior year and was the seventh homicide in the city in about four months.

Investigators linked the killing to a social media post made by Love a week earlier: a mocking Facebook video showing him and a friend at territory claimed by a rival gang, flashing gang signs and taunting. Authorities say that video provoked a retaliatory attack. Police identified 19-year-old Maurtice Poole-Knight as a suspect; he was arrested and charged with open murder and a gang-related felony. Prosecutors used the Facebook video and other online videos as evidence; the defense disputed gang membership and whether Poole-Knight was in the vehicle that fired the shots.

Maurtice Poole-Knight was later convicted of homicide-manslaughter and a gang-related felony and received a minimum 10-year sentence for the manslaughter conviction. If anyone knew DeQuarius, his movements that night, or has information about the shooting, please come forward.