Radames Remy Francisco was a 15-year-old male fatally shot on the evening of Friday, May 21, 2021, on Syracuse’s Near West Side. The shooting occurred around 10 p.m. in the 400 block of Shonnard Street. Officers found Francisco with a gunshot wound to the chest and he was taken to Upstate University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Francisco was known as an aspiring rapper and remembered by loved ones as the life of the party. The Syracuse Police Department identified a suspect, a fellow teenager. Two days later, on Sunday, May 23, 2021, 14-year-old Zhaire Wilson was arrested at the Syracuse Police Department and charged with second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon; he was lodged at Hillbrook Juvenile Detention Center to await further proceedings.

Anyone who knew Radames or has information about the case is asked to share what they know.