--- description: Police charged the men with endangerment in the death of Trinity Gay. title: Police Arrest 3 Men in Death of Trinity Gay, Olympic Sprinter's Daughter image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltff17a0f181c5a9e9/6988aa370b72e3bd576eb5e8/trinity-gay-tyson-gay-death-three-men-charged.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Police Arrest 3 Men in Shooting Death of Trinity Gay, Olympic Sprinter's Daughter  by [Julia Zorthian](/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 17, 2016 5:31 PM CUT  In this May 3, 2014, photo, Trinity Gay, a seventh-grader racing for her Scott County High School team, poses for a photo with her father Tyson Gay, after she won the 100 meters and was part of the winning 4-by-100 and 4-by-200 relays at the meet in Georgetown, Ky. In this May 3, 2014, photo, Trinity Gay, a seventh-grader racing for her Scott County High School team, poses for a photo with her father Tyson Gay, after she won the 100 meters and was part of the winning 4-by-100 and 4-by-200 relays at the meet in Georgetown, Ky.Mark Maloney/Lexington Herald-Leader—AP  by [Julia Zorthian](/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 17, 2016 5:31 PM CUT Police [arrested three men](http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/17/us/tyson-gay-daughter-trinity-killed-arrests/ "undefined") in connection with the shooting Sunday that [killed 15-year-old Trinity Gay](http://time.com/4532660/trinity-tyson-gay-shot-olympic-sprinter/ "undefined"), the daughter of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay. Lexington, Ky. police arrested Chazerae Taylor, 38, and D’markeo Taylor, 19 for Wanton Endangerment, as well as Dvonta Middlebrooks, 21, for Wanton Endangerment and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The [police department said](https://www.lexingtonky.gov/news/10-16-2016/s-broadway-homicide-investigation "undefined") Middlebrooks fired multiple shots in the parking lot where Trinity Gay was hit by a stray bullet during a shootout between two vehicles early Sunday morning. Chazerae Taylor and D’markeo Taylor are father and son, according to police. Officers also recovered two vehicles, a blue Ford and grey Dodge, that matched the descriptions of cars that fled the scene of the shooting. Trinity Gay was not a passenger of either vehicle when a bullet struck her in the neck. She died after being taken to the University of Kentucky hospital. > [](https://twitter.com/lexkypolice/status/787858598068183040) “She was so innocent, she was so innocent,” her mother, Shoshana, Boyd told the [New York _Daily News_](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/men-arrested-death-sprinter-tyson-gay-daughter-article-1.2833174 "undefined") Sunday. “I just want people to stop shooting and realize who they’re hurting. It’s just random. They don’t understand, they don’t understand who they’re hurting.” \[[_CNN_](http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/17/us/tyson-gay-daughter-trinity-killed-arrests/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4533469/trinity-tyson-gay-shooting-arrests/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4533469/trinity-tyson-gay-shooting-arrests/"},"headline":"Police Arrest 3 Men in Shooting Death of Trinity Gay, Olympic Sprinter's Daughter","datePublished":"2016-10-17T17:31:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:14:17.317Z","description":"Police charged the three men with endangerment in the death of Tyson Gay's daughter","url":"https://time.com/4533469/trinity-tyson-gay-shooting-arrests/","keywords":["Crime","Sports topic","Kentucky"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltff17a0f181c5a9e9/6988aa370b72e3bd576eb5e8/trinity-gay-tyson-gay-death-three-men-charged.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltff17a0f181c5a9e9/6988aa370b72e3bd576eb5e8/trinity-gay-tyson-gay-death-three-men-charged.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"trinity gay tyson gay death three men charged","caption":"trinity gay tyson gay death three men charged","creditText":"Mark Maloney/Lexington Herald-Leader—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4533469/trinity-tyson-gay-shooting-arrests/","name":"Police Arrest 3 Men in Shooting Death of Trinity Gay, Olympic Sprinter's Daughter"}}]}] ```