On the evening of December 3, 2022, 22-year-old Tylik Emmanuel Young was found with gunshot wounds in the 1800 block of Third Avenue in Macon, Georgia. First responders pronounced him dead at the scene shortly after 5:00 p.m. His 18-year-old brother, Jordan Young, was also wounded in the shooting and taken to a local hospital in stable condition. Tylik’s death was the third son Felicia Young lost to gun violence in as many years.

Investigators identified a 14-year-old male juvenile who turned himself in to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office and was charged with murder; the juvenile was later named as Myquavis Gaither. A grand jury indicted both Myquavis Gaither and Jordan Young on murder and aggravated assault charges. Jordan Young was later taken into custody during a traffic stop for a broken brake light.

Prosecutors then dropped the murder charges after a recorded interview with Jordan Young was lost when the hard drive storing the file became corrupted and could not be recovered. With the recording unavailable and defendants asserting self-defense, prosecutors said they could not meet the burden of proof. Does anyone have information about the shooting or the events that evening?