Mansfield Man Found Guilty of Murder in 2022 Tuttle Mall Shooting

Posted on 6/16/2025

Defendant: Tyrone Gray

A Mansfield man who shot and killed another man inside the Mall at Tuttle Crossing will spend at least the next 21 years in prison.
 
Late in the evening on June 13, 2025, a Franklin County jury found Tyrone Gray, 27, guilty of two counts of murder and one count of inducing panic, all with gun specifications. The jury acquitted him on a charge of aggravated burglary and two counts of aggravated murder.
 
Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Andy Miller sentenced Gray to 21 years to life in prison.
 
Case Background
 
Just before 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 12, 2022, Gray called police to say he had shot Dontarious Sylvester, 25, after Sylvester threw a purse at him inside a shoe store at the Mall at Tuttle Crossing.
 
Surveillance video showed the two men, both from Mansfield, arguing inside the Sole Stop store. After Sylvester hit Gray with a handbag, Gray pulled out a gun and fired several times. Sylvester died at the scene.
 
No one else was injured, but there were more than a dozen people in the store at the time of the shooting. The sound of gunfire also caused a panic throughout the mall as shoppers ran in fear. More than 40 people called 911 from inside the mall, which was placed on lockdown as police cleared each store.
 
Gray was arrested without incident in the mall parking lot and later pleaded not guilty to all charges.