On the evening of Sunday, January 15, 2017, 22-year-old Ryan M. Small of York, Pennsylvania, was found with gunshot wounds to his torso after emergency crews initially responded to what appeared to be a two-vehicle crash on the 400 block of West Princess Street. He was taken to York Hospital and later died of those injuries. What was first treated as a traffic incident was reclassified as a homicide investigation.

Friends and family remembered Small as a young father of two with a third child on the way. A roadside memorial was created at the crash site and community members organized a stop the violence rally in the days afterward. York City Police charged two men, 29-year-old Vernon A. Cox and 27-year-old Leon White, with criminal homicide, robbery, criminal conspiracy and firearm violations; both were already in custody on unrelated warrants and were being held in York County Prison pending arraignment on the new charges.

If anyone has information about Small, the events on West Princess Street that night, or the people involved, please come forward.