On September 29, 2021, 16-year-old Jaden Turnage was shot in the chest on Monroe Street near Classon Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The shooting occurred at about 6:15 p.m.; emergency services took him to Brooklyn Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Jaden was a student at FDNY High School and was remembered by family and friends as loving, caring, funny, and enthusiastic about music, dancing, and video games.

Reports say an altercation between Jaden and his friends and another group preceded the shooting. He was chased from Madison Street and Classon Avenue and a block later was struck by the fatal shot. The NYPD investigation resulted in two arrests: 18-year-old Aramis Gonzalez, identified in part from surveillance footage and held at Rikers Island, and a 16-year-old whose name was not released because of his age. Both face charges including murder and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with Turnage’s death.

Anyone who knew Jaden or saw the events that evening is asked to come forward with information.