Delshon Scott, a 28-year-old Black man, was shot in the early hours of October 19, 2019, just after he pulled in near his home on Detroit’s west side. It was the kind of moment that should have been ordinary—getting home from work, the street quiet, the night thinning toward morning—but it turned into something brutal and sudden. Police said he was confronted near Fielding and Joy Road, and after the gunfire, his vehicle was taken from the scene.
As his family described it, Scott had been doing what he always did, coming back from his job and parking when the ambush happened. The first reports said he survived the initial shooting and was rushed for help, but he died on the way to the hospital. Investigators circulated details of the stolen car—a red 2005 Ford Focus with noticeable damage and a missing tail light—hoping someone might spot it and lead them back to the person who pulled the trigger. At the time, the gunman’s identity was unknown in the public reporting.
Days later, authorities publicly tied Scott’s killing to a wider burst of violence that, according to investigators, unfolded across that same date. In late-October reporting, police alleged that Tyrell Jones and Ahmad Ayoub were responsible for Scott’s death outside his home. The account described Scott arriving after work—after dropping off coworkers—then being forced at gunpoint to hand over his keys, only to be shot anyway as the men took his car. That same report said the pair faced a mix of serious allegations connected to the events of October 19, including murder, carjacking, assault, and arson-related charges, as investigators framed the day as a crime spree rather than an isolated attack.
Public state prison records later showed both men serving sentences for second-degree murder tied to an offense dated October 19, 2019, in Wayne County. The Michigan Department of Corrections OTIS database lists Tyrell Martez Jones as having entered a plea leading to a second-degree murder conviction for an offense on that date, along with a felony-firearm conviction, and it also shows him convicted in a separate second-degree murder case dated October 4, 2019. OTIS separately lists Ahmad Hussein Ayoub with a second-degree murder conviction for an offense dated October 19, 2019, recorded as resolved by a no-contest plea, with sentencing reflected in 2022.
