Police de-escalate fight at Baytown. Man fatally shot with laser-sighted rifle an hour later.

BAY CITY, MI — Early one recent morning, Bay City police responded to a reported fight at Baytown Family Neighborhood. Hoping to quell the tense situation, officers removed a 26-year-old man from the scene, took him to a party store and bought him some cigars, then sent him on his way.

About an hour later, the man was back at Baytown, suffering from a fatal gunshot wound to his head. As witnesses would tell police, a teen fired the bullet with a small-caliber rifle, using a laser sight to find his target.

These details are contained in police reports within court files, released the day after the suspect was arraigned on a murder charge.

The matter began about 6:20 a.m. on Oct. 26, when police responded to the 700 block of Third Street within Baytown Family Neighborhood for reports of a fight involving several people. Officers arrived to find Toryon T. Patterson standing on the southwest corner of Third and North Jackson streets, yelling at two women who were yelling back at him. One of the women, a 22-year-old who resides in Baytown, told police Patterson "do too much" and she was tired of his antics, reports state.

The woman said she had met Patterson a couple of days prior as he was walking by her home.

Patterson told police he wanted some personal items from the apartment, specifically a teddy bear and an orange cup, and that he would leave. Officers went into the unit and retrieved the two items, giving them to Patterson. Patterson then told them he would catch a bus to Saginaw.

Police learned Patterson was wanted on two warrants and briefly detained him. On learning the warrants were "out of pickup range," officers released Patterson and offered to give him a ride to deescalate the situation. Patterson accepted and police first took him to the Bay Metro Transit station. Finding it was closed, they took him to the 7-Eleven at 1500 Columbus Ave.

Patterson used the restroom there and officers bought him two Black & Mild cigars. They left the store with Patterson walking west on Columbus, they wrote in their reports.

Rather than head to Saginaw, Patterson went back toward Baytown.

At 7:42 a.m., police returned to the area of Third and North Jackson streets after callers reported hearing about four gunshots. They arrived to see several people running from the scene, with Patterson lying prone on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the right side of his forehead. Witnesses indicated the suspect fled in a blue 2011 GMC Terrain, reports state.

Responding Medstar Ambulance personnel took Patterson to McLaren Bay Region hospital.

Doctors determined the wound had left Patterson brain-dead, reports state. Police spoke with Patterson's relatives, who said he had been released from the Saginaw County Jail a few days prior and went to Bay City to meet his girlfriend. A relative of Patterson's told police a woman called her from the scene to say Patterson had been shot and the shooter was 19-year-old Jai'Mari K. Campbell, reports state.

Relatives also said Patterson had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, reports state.

Back at the scene, police found five spent .22-caliber shell casings, an unfired bullet of the same caliber, a 9mm bullet, and a broken knife. Inside the involved apartment, officers found Campbell's cellphone and a bag containing 59 rounds of 9mm ammunition, reports state.

Investigators spoke with numerous witnesses and obtained surveillance camera footage of the shooting. They determined about six people, including Patterson, had been at the Baytown apartment the night of Oct. 25 and into the next morning for a gathering where alcohol was consumed.

Campbell also arrived at the unit and he and Patterson got into a disagreement, witnesses said. Both men went outside to fight, with Patterson getting the upper hand by slamming Campbell to the ground and headbutting him, witnesses said. As they fought, the two allegedly intoxicated men threatened to kill each other, witnesses said.

After the tussle ended, both men left Baytown, Patterson taken away by police.

Campbell returned 10 or 15 minutes later with a rifle, saying Patterson chipped his tooth and that he couldn't wait until Patterson came back, witnesses told police.

Patterson returned to Baytown and started barking and yelling "I'm a gorilla, you can't mess with these hands," witnesses told police. Hearing of Patterson's return, Campbell allegedly put out a cigarillo he was smoking, picked up the rifle, and went outside as others tried to stop him, one witness said.

Patterson's girlfriend ran outside and told him he was about to get shot, she said. Moments later, Campbell emerged from the apartment, went behind a Baytown sign, and started shooting, the witness said.

Another witness gave a similar account, adding Campbell turned on the rifle's laser sight before he started shooting at Patterson. Campbell then fled in the blue GMC Terrain, witnesses said.

The witnesses said Patterson did not have a gun.

Police found the Terrain abandoned on West Jane Street just west of South Chilson Street, on the opposite side of the Saginaw River. They determined it belonged to Campbell's grandmother.

Surveillance camera footage showed Patterson at 7:38 a.m. near the southwest corner of North Jackson and Third streets. Seconds later, several people exited the Baytown apartment, among them an armed subject. The armed person stepped onto the Third Street sidewalk and fired several rounds at Patterson, who began to run only to collapse and cease moving. The shooter then fled in the Terrain, the video showed.

Police released Campbell's name and photo to the media on Oct. 31, describing him as armed and dangerous. Patterson died about 9 p.m. on Nov. 1 after his family removed him from life support.

Campbell on the morning of Nov. 6 surrendered to his probation officer. That afternoon he was arraigned in Bay County District Court on one count of open murder, which contains both first- and second-degree murder. Both degrees are life offenses, while a conviction of first mandates a prison term life without the possibility of parole.

Police have not disclosed if they have recovered the involved firearm.

Campbell remains jailed on a $1 million bond. He is to appear for a preliminary examination on Nov. 20.

Campbell is on probation as a Bay County judge in December sentenced him to one year of it on convictions of domestic violence and assaulting police.

Patterson turned 26 on Oct. 5. He was released from the Saginaw County Jail on a $20,000 personal recognizance bond the evening of Oct. 21, having been arrested two days earlier and charged with first-degree home invasion and assault with a dangerous weapon. Prosecutors wrote in a bond recommendation a female victim suffered lacerations to her face and chest.

Paradise Funeral Chapel in Saginaw is handling Patterson's arrangements, the specifics of which have not yet been published.