Adrrell Taylor

Adrrell Taylor was a 26-year-old Black man remembered by his family as a hardworking electrician with a loud and contagious laugh. A graduate of Millard North High School in Omaha, Nebraska, he had been a running back for the school’s football team. He was also the father of a five-year-old daughter, who called him her superhero. His family said he was a great father, brother, uncle, and friend who never missed one of his younger brother's wrestling matches.

In the early hours of August 3, 2023, police responded to a report of a shooting near 17th and S Streets. Officers arrived around 2:30 a.m. and found Adrrell Taylor lying wounded in a yard. He was transported to a local hospital, where he died from his injuries. For his mother, Tammy Taylor, the tragedy was a devastating echo of the past; Adrrell’s father had been shot and killed nearly 12 years earlier in a case that remains unsolved. "Dad was murdered the exact same way that he was," she said. "Brutally murdered. Just like my son."

The Omaha Police Department’s investigation led them to identify a suspect. On August 24, 2023, with the assistance of the Minneapolis Police Department and the North Star Fugitive Task Force, investigators arrested 33-year-old Kye Moss in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Moss was extradited to Omaha in September and charged with first-degree murder, use of a weapon to commit a felony, and possession of a weapon by a prohibited person.

Prosecutors stated that Moss drove from Minnesota to Omaha to find and kill Taylor. The murder followed an altercation between Moss, Taylor, and others that had occurred seven weeks earlier at the College World Series. According to prosecutors, Moss fired 18 shots the night Taylor was killed. In January 2026, with the agreement of Taylor’s family, Moss pleaded guilty to the reduced charges of second-degree murder and use of a weapon to commit a felony.

At his sentencing hearing, Moss turned to Adrrell Taylor’s family and apologized. “I ask for forgiveness. I am sorry for my actions. I let things get out of control,” he said. In April 2026, a judge sentenced Kye Moss to 55 to 75 years in prison. Taylor’s mother said she felt the sentence should have been life and vowed to be at every one of Moss’s parole hearings.