In the summer of 2014 Muskegon Heights, Michigan, suffered a string of violent incidents that included the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Rayshun Day. On the morning of June 24, 2014, Day was walking to his job when he was shot in the head near Hume Avenue and Reynolds Street. The killing was one of several homicides that alarmed the community at that time.

Investigators tied the case to gang activity, and a 19-year-old Muskegon man, Jalon Ladrick Merriweather, was tried beginning December 8, 2015. The prosecution’s case identified Day as a known member of the Gangster Disciples and presented evidence connecting Merriweather to the shooting. On December 11, 2015, a jury found Merriweather guilty of first-degree premeditated murder, carrying a concealed weapon, possessing a firearm during a felony, and a gang-related felony.

Merriweather received a life sentence without parole for the murder on January 19, 2016, along with additional prison terms for the other counts. If anyone has information about Rayshun Day, his movements that morning, or the neighborhood around Hume and Reynolds in June 2014, please share what is known.