On the evening of St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 2025, an 11-year-old boy, Jeremiah Huff, was shot and killed inside a home on Roney Road in Syracuse, New York. Jeremiah was on the phone with his mother, Samantha Gallup-Peltier, at the time; that call captured his final moments. Police arrived about 9:34 p.m. and found Jeremiah and 32-year-old Yeraldith Tschudy, who also died of apparent gunshot wounds.

Authorities identified Jeremiah’s father, 43-year-old David Huff, as the immediate suspect. A roughly 12-hour manhunt involving multiple agencies and a helicopter ended the next morning when state police, acting on a citizen tip, arrested Huff about two miles from the scene in the town of Onondaga without incident. Investigators say a 12-gauge shotgun was the weapon used.

Huff was charged with multiple counts, including first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder, criminal possession of a weapon, and an attempted murder count tied to an alleged shot aimed at Huff’s stepfather that either misfired or the gun ran out of ammunition.

Jeremiah was a sixth-grade honor roll student at Gillette Road Middle School who enjoyed sports and the outdoors and had talked about joining the Coast Guard. Is anyone in the Syracuse area able to share memories of Jeremiah or relevant information about that evening?