In the early morning hours of April 22, 2025, gunfire woke residents near the 2800 block of Minnesota Avenue in Tower Grove East, St. Louis. Officers found 16-year-old Jamad Edwards lying in the roadway with multiple gunshot wounds. Edwards, who lived on the nearby 2800 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, was taken to a hospital in critical condition and was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Homicide detectives canvassed the neighborhood for witnesses and surveillance footage. A neighbor reported seeing a person dressed in all black running through an alley shortly after the shots, but no clear perpetrator description or motive has been released. The community remembers Edwards as a young man with a bright future ahead of him.

Anyone with information about the shooting or who saw activity in the area around 2:20 a.m. on April 22 is urged to come forward.