On May 5, 2023, at about 5:38 p.m. officers from the Decatur Police Department responded to a shooting in the 100 block of West Packard Street and found 28-year-old Travion Shonterious Pickens with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to Decatur Memorial Hospital, where he later died. Detectives interviewed witnesses and recovered multiple shell casings at the scene during the investigation.

Pickens was born July 12, 1994, and lived in Decatur, Illinois. Police announced an arrest on May 11, 2023, when a 32-year-old Washington was charged with first-degree murder in connection with the shooting. Pickens’s passing was noted in local obituaries and remembered by family and friends.

Does anyone have information about what happened on West Packard Street that evening or recall seeing activity in the area around 5:30 p.m. on May 5?