Tellis Shareem Stephens Jr. was 18 when he was found dead on Lambing Road in Jacksonville, Florida, on the evening of September 29, 2019, suffering multiple gunshot wounds. Born April 21, 2001, he attended Jean Ribault High School and Westside High School and was a member of Holiness of Eternal Word Holy Mission, where he had confessed his faith at an early age.

Local authorities treated the death as a homicide and the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office opened an investigation. The family had already experienced tragedy when Tellis’s brother, Dontavious M. Pee Wee Joseph, died in a March 22, 2018 car crash.

Anyone with information about the shooting on Lambing Road is asked to come forward.