Tyrone Kelly, a 21-year-old Black father, was shot and killed in South Bend, Indiana, on the evening of March 26, 2014. The shooting occurred in the 1800 block of Johnson Street and also wounded two other men, David Cross and Jerry Wright. The violence began during a dispute over Kelly’s child with 19-year-old Joilise Crossley, who was in a relationship with the child’s mother.

Witnesses and community tips led investigators to identify Crossley as the shooter. She was arrested and charged with voluntary manslaughter and two counts of criminal recklessness. In January 2015 Crossley pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter; the criminal recklessness counts were dismissed and a judge imposed a 40-year sentence with 20 years to be served in prison followed by five years of probation.