On the afternoon of December 31, 2018, 16-year-old Marlon Davis Jr., known as MJ, was shot at the intersection of East Williams and South Lafayette streets in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was taken to a local hospital in a private vehicle before police arrived around 4:30 p.m., but died of a gunshot wound to the back. The Allen County Coroner ruled his death a homicide, and the slaying was recorded as Fort Wayne’s 44th homicide of 2018.

Marlon was a student at the Crossing Educational Center and participated in Wild Cats Baseball and programs at the City Life Center. Family and friends remembered him as funny, loving, and respectable. The Fort Wayne Police Department opened an investigation and asked the public for help; no arrests have been announced and the case remains unsolved.

Did anyone in the community see activity near East Williams and South Lafayette on that afternoon or have information about Marlon’s death?