Jailan Taylor, a 20-year-old African American man from Decatur, Illinois, was shot and killed on May 7, 2022. He was found with a gunshot wound in the south alley of the 1300 block of East William Street near Jasper Park and died after being taken to a local hospital. The city recorded his death as its sixth homicide of 2022 and the second gun violence incident in Decatur in two days.

Taylor was a father to a young daughter, Ka’Lahni, and his family included his parents, Leslie Taylor and Sean Peck, plus numerous siblings and extended relatives. Decatur police opened an investigation into the shooting; as of the last report there have been no arrests or publicly identified suspects. The alley where he was shot has been cited as an area with rising violent incidents.

Does anyone have information about what happened that night or knew Jailan and can help investigators?