Kyle Reedy was 26 and a father, described by friends as loyal, intense and a closet teddy bear at times. On the afternoon of June 24, 2020, he was at a home in the 1000 block of Fifth Street SW in Canton when he was struck in the chest by a bullet from a 9mm handgun that had been placed on a table. Emergency services were called at 4:44 p.m.; Reedy was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead at 5:10 p.m.

Tobiah Harshaw picked up the gun while apparently trying to unload or reload it, and the weapon accidentally discharged. Harshaw fled the scene in Reedy’s vehicle; police quickly identified him as the suspect, recovered the vehicle in Columbus, and the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force joined the search. Harshaw was arrested in Columbus on October 20, 2020, and later pleaded guilty to reckless homicide and having weapons under disability. He was sentenced on January 4, 2021.

If anyone knew Kyle, where he spent his time in Canton or who might have been with him that afternoon, please share what you know.