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Sixteen-year-old Kaylin Johnson, known as KJ, was shot and killed in West Philadelphia on Wednesday, July 21, 2021. A student at Boys’ Latin Charter School and described as a standout athlete who loved football, Johnson was in a car with two friends when gunmen opened fire on the 200 block of North 56th Street. He was struck multiple times in the chest and stomach, taken to a nearby hospital, and died of his wounds. His childhood friend Tommie Frazier, 18, was also killed; the third teen in the car survived.

Police say the teens were not the intended targets. Investigators allege members of a West Philadelphia gang known as the Young Bag Chasers followed the vehicle from a school, then a man exited a minivan and fired into the car while another person drove the minivan away. Arrests were later announced in connection with the double homicide.

Did anyone in West Philadelphia see the vehicle or the minivan before the shooting, or know anything about the moments that led up to the attack?