Fifteen-year-old Edwin Hernandez-Medina of Winston-Salem was found unresponsive in a parking lot on Timlic Avenue on December 18, 2021 with an apparent gunshot wound. Forsyth County EMS transported him to a hospital, where he died the next day. The Winston-Salem Police Department is investigating his death as a homicide.

Investigators have noted that Edwin was an associate of 20-year-old Edwin Cisneros-Lopez, who was shot and killed two days later on Pitt Street. Detectives are working to determine whether the two shootings are connected but have not established a definitive link. In the Cisneros-Lopez case, 33-year-old Justin Neil Sydenstricker was identified as a suspect and charged with felony murder; that development is tied to the later shooting.

Edwin is survived by his parents, Eladio Hernandez and Alberta Medina Rodriquez, and siblings Brendon Medina, Inez Hernandez-Medina, Karla Santos, and Kimberly Medina. A graveside service was held at Oak Lawn Memorial Gardens on December 23, 2021. If anyone has information about Edwin’s case or the events on Timlic Avenue, please come forward.