Man killed at housing complex in Marin City
The Marin County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the shooting death of a 42-year-old man at the Golden Gate Village apartment complex in Marin City.
The victim was Tiyon Tony Ford, a Marin City resident, the county coroner’s division said Wednesday.
Authorities received reports of gunfire at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the apartment building on the 400 block of Drake Avenue, the sheriff’s office said. Sheriff’s deputies found Ford with gunshot wounds.
Ford was pronounced dead after medics took him to a hospital.
Deputies, who received reports that there were several witnesses, are looking for people with information to come forward.
The sheriff’s department released no information about a potential suspect or motive.
Ford was a 1994 graduate of Tamalpais High School and played on the football team, said Paul Austin, a former classmate.
“I just hate to see any violence,” said Austin, founder of the youth organization Play Marin. “I hate to see any life be taken by the hand of gun violence in general. Our community is too small and every death hurts.”
Marin City resident Felecia Gaston, a community leader and founder of the youth program Performing Stars, said the community is shaken.
“It’s really scary,” she said. “Here in our community again in the last two years we have experienced too many deaths of young Black men.”
She noted the death of Kwentyn Wiggins, 17, a Branson student who was killed in a car wreck in June 2019. Days later, Tony Carnill Foster Jr., 34, was found dead at Stinson Beach.
In September 2018, Joshua Davis, a 28-yearold from Fairfield and a former Marin City resident, was shot and killed in Richmond. Last year, Javlin County, a 29-year-old father, was shot and killed in a Halloween shooting in Orinda.
“I’m particularly concerned about the children experiencing this trauma,” Gaston said. “But we don’t want this isolated incident to taint the good people in the community and the good that they do.”
The sheriff’s department said sources with potential information for the investigation can contact Detective Chris Gullett at 415233-3431 or c_gullett@ marinsheriff.org.
Sources can also send information anonymously by calling Bay Area Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS or texting BAYTIP and the information to 274637.
The fatal shooting appears to be the first homicide of the year in Marin County. Over the past decade, the county has had an average of about three homicides a year, according to the California Department of Justice.
One homicide was recorded last year. No homicides were recorded in 2012.