Twenty-year-old Jaylin Dixon was fatally shot after shots were fired into a vehicle in Maryville, Tennessee, on the evening of Tuesday, December 7, 2021. Dixon, a Knoxville resident, was a passenger in that vehicle and was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center for treatment. He died of his injuries the next day, December 8, 2021.

The Maryville Police Department investigated and identified a teenage male as a suspect. A juvenile petition was filed and the teen was taken into custody; no further identifying details or specific charges have been released because of the suspect’s juvenile status. The circumstances that led to the shooting remain under investigation.

If anyone has information about the events on the evening of December 7, 2021, in Maryville or about Jaylin’s activities that night, please share what is known with the Maryville Police Department.