Shaolin Tiriq-Arik Newsom was 18 when he was shot and killed outside a home on the 1800 block of West 21st Street in Anderson, Indiana, on the evening of October 27, 2016. The confrontation began after an argument over a Facebook post and a quiz taken by Newsom’s girlfriend; he was struck multiple times, twice in the chest and once in the back, and later died at St. Vincent Anderson Regional Hospital. Newsom, known to friends and family as Tiriq and sometimes performing as BandmanRiq, had recently graduated from Anderson High School and was expecting a child.

The killing prompted visible grief in the neighborhood, with friends leaving spray-painted tributes on the street where he died. Two teenagers were arrested in connection with the shooting: Jaylon S. Brown, 17 at the time, was charged as an adult with murder and alleged to be the shooter, and Tyrone Jones was charged with assisting a criminal and later received a five-year sentence that included two years in a program placement and three years of probation.

Does anyone have information about the events that night or knew Shaolin’s activities around West 21st Street?