Jaidarian Taikerrid McKinney
Age 18
Troy, Alabama
He worked at a sneaker store
His friends and family knew the boy with a “a heart of a lion;” better as “Jt.”
The 18-year-old Foot Locker employee recently graduated from Goshen High School in Troy, Alabama. According to his friends, he was always “dancin[g] [a]nd smilin[g].”
On Nov. 23, 2018, three men dropped off Jadrian Taikerrid McKinney at Troy Regional Medical Center emergency room. He had been fatally shot. He died the next morning in Montgomery Hospital. His funeral was held on Dec. 1, 2018.