On November 6, 2021, 18-year-old Joshua Anthony Soto was shot and killed while visiting a friend’s house on East Cornwall Street in Philadelphia’s Harrowgate neighborhood. Soto, a national junior ice dancer with Olympic aspirations, was inside watching Netflix when three men arrived under the pretense of a drug deal. Joseph Cuevas allegedly produced a handgun and opened fire, striking Soto in the chest. Soto ran from the house but collapsed on the sidewalk and was pronounced dead; the friend who hosted him, Zbigniew Still, was shot in the abdomen and leg and survived.

Investigators identified three suspects: Joseph Cuevas, Luis Castillo, and Anthony Sherman. Sherman was arrested two days after the shooting while wearing an ankle monitor and later cooperated with prosecutors, implicating Cuevas and Castillo. The getaway car registered to Cuevas was found burned in Northeast Philadelphia later that month, and the surviving victim, Still, positively identified all three assailants after recovery.

All three defendants faced court proceedings. Cuevas was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder, attempted murder and firearm charges and received a life sentence without parole. Castillo pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, conspiracy, aggravated assault and gun charges and was sentenced to 35 to 70 years in prison. Sherman pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, attempted murder and conspiracy and received a sentence of under 10 years.

Did anyone in the Harrowgate neighborhood see or hear anything that afternoon that could shed more light on what happened?