Tyree Heavy Hill

Tyree Heavy Hill, a 30-year-old Black man known to friends as “Heavy,” was a resident of Toledo, Ohio. Those who knew him remembered him as a “cool” person and a big brother figure. His life was abruptly and violently cut short in the early hours of Saturday, May 9, 2020, marking the city's ninth homicide of the year.

Just after midnight, around 12:30 a.m., Toledo Police officers were dispatched to the corner of Dorr Street and Shirley Avenue following a report of a person shot. They found Tyree just inside the doorway of his residence in the 2200 block of Dorr Street. He had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy later performed by the Lucas County deputy coroner revealed the brutal nature of the attack: Tyree had been shot seven times at close range in his head and face.

The investigation by the Toledo Police Department quickly identified a suspect. According to a court affidavit, the shooting followed a verbal altercation. Based on evidence gathered at the scene and witness information, the Lucas County Prosecutor’s Office issued a murder warrant for 26-year-old Marquise Grant on the same day as the shooting. At the time the warrant was issued, Grant was already free on a personal recognizance bond from a March 12 arrest related to drug and weapons charges. A search of his home during that earlier arrest had yielded fentanyl, cocaine, cash, and a loaded revolver.

For ten days, Grant remained at large. Then, on May 19, 2020, Toledo Police, along with the U.S. Marshals' fugitive task force, located and arrested him in the 1500 block of Twin Oaks Drive. He was taken into custody without incident and booked into the Lucas County jail on the murder charge connected to Tyree Hill’s death.

Following his arrest, Marquise Grant was indicted by a Lucas County grand jury on June 8, 2020, on charges of aggravated murder and murder, both with firearm specifications, as well as a charge of having weapons while under disability due to a prior felony conviction. His criminal history included a 2011 conviction for felonious assault, for which he was sentenced to five years in prison after shooting an 18-year-old in the face when he was 17.

The case against Grant proceeded through the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas. On October 21, 2021, Grant entered an Alford plea to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter with a three-year firearm specification. In an Alford plea, the defendant does not admit guilt but concedes that the prosecution has enough evidence to likely secure a conviction. As part of the plea agreement, the initial charges of aggravated murder and murder were dismissed.

On December 2, 2021, a judge sentenced Marquise Grant to a total of 14 years in prison: 11 years for involuntary manslaughter and a mandatory additional three years for the firearm specification. As of November 2026, Grant is incarcerated at the Belmont Correctional Institution, with a potential release date in 2034. The case is now considered closed through litigation, bringing a legal conclusion to the violent death of Tyree Hill.