On the evening of September 20, 2015, 25-year-old Tyeshon Dotson was found in the 400 block of Birdsell Street in South Bend, Indiana, having sustained multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before 8 p.m. The St. Joseph County Metro Homicide Unit led the initial investigation and considered whether Dotson’s killing was retaliatory, linked to an earlier fatal shooting that same day outside the AmVets Post 66 on Western Avenue, but no definitive link was confirmed.

Dotson, known as Ty, was born in South Bend on January 4, 1990, and was the father of five children. He taught himself to play drums and other instruments, performed at venues including the University of Notre Dame, and was reportedly close to finishing his first rap album. Family and friends remembered him for his music, his love of singing and basketball, and for cutting hair. Police searched for suspects in the days and weeks after his death, but no arrests were publicly announced and the case grew cold.

If anyone knew Tyeshon, witnessed activity on Birdsell Street that evening, or has information about the earlier AmVets shooting, please come forward.