On the evening of March 18, 2014, a music video shoot at a park on North Fremont Street in South Bend, Indiana, ended in gunfire. ShotSpotter alerted police, who arrived just after 7 p.m. and found two young men shot near the Lasalle Landing Apartments. Both were taken to Memorial Hospital; 19-year-old Cornell Grant Taylor died of his wounds at 11:50 p.m., while the other victim, 20-year-old Brilan Williams, was treated and released. Emotions at the scene were intense and several people were removed by law enforcement as the investigation proceeded.

Cornell Taylor, born August 13, 1994, was a South Bend resident and a student at Rise Up Academy. He was active in his church, played drums and organ, and loved music and basketball. The St. Joseph County Metro Homicide Unit identified a suspect, Shyheem Jones, who was arrested and charged after investigators concluded an altercation during the filming escalated to the fatal shooting. Witness accounts given at trial conflicted; Jones testified he acted in self-defense, while other witnesses, including inmates who had been jailed with him, said Jones admitted shooting Taylor in revenge or over disrespect. The jury convicted Jones of murder and he received a fifty-five year sentence on April 22, 2015.

If anyone was at that March 18 gathering or has information about the altercation, please share what is remembered.