Joshua Ancrum was 17 and a junior at Miami Norland High School when he was fatally shot on May 21, 2019. The promising cornerback was visiting friends in the 3400 block of Northwest 207th Street in Miami Gardens around 2 p.m. when an argument about a video game with a childhood friend escalated into gunfire. He was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center and pronounced dead.

The Miami Gardens Police Department identified a 16-year-old suspect, Jatwan Phillips, and charged him with aggravated manslaughter, describing the incident as isolated gunplay among associates and saying no one else was involved. Ancrum had multiple college scholarship offers and was described by his mother, Lisa Alvarez, and coaches as a young athlete with NFL aspirations whose death deeply affected family and community.

Does anyone have memories of Joshua or information about that afternoon that could shed more light on what happened?