On October 30, 2019, 18-year-old Sy-eed Woodson was one of four family members found shot to death inside their Walton Avenue home in West Philadelphia. Officers entered through a second-floor window after Sy-eed’s mother Janet Woodson, 51, and her husband Leslie Holmes, 56, failed to report to work; Janet, Leslie and a 7-year-old half-brother, Leslie Woodson-Holmes, were also dead from gunshot wounds to the head. Sy-eed’s body was located in a second-floor bedroom.

Maurice Louis, Janet’s 29-year-old son and Sy-eed’s half-brother, was found inside the house naked and drinking vodka.

The night before the killings his mother took him to a hospital because he had stopped taking medication and was behaving erratically; he was not seen by a psychiatrist and left the facility.

Those with information about the family, the events of October 30, 2019, or the circumstances that allowed the gun to be obtained are asked to come forward.