Justin Tyrone Beecher, a 24-year-old Black man born March 18, 1990, was shot and killed in Gary, Indiana on April 23, 2014. He had lived in the region during his life, attended Blessed Sacrament School in Gary and Merrillville High School, later Stephenson High School in Lithonia, Georgia, and was working at Indiana University Northwest when he died. He is survived by his parents Eric Beecher and Thora Evans, siblings, and two children, a son Jayden and a daughter Joredynn.

Visitation was held at Guy & Allen Chapel, followed by a funeral at Trinity Missionary Baptist Church on Virginia Street, and burial at Oak Hill Cemetery.

Did anyone in Gary at the time have information about Justin’s life, routine, or the circumstances of that April 2014 shooting?