Ayden Randall Paige, 18, was shot and killed on August 18, 2025, on Springfield’s southeast side near South 14th Street and Cornell Avenue. Officers responding around 5:50 p.m. found three people with gunshot wounds; two suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Ayden was taken to HSHS St. John’s Hospital and pronounced dead at 6:52 p.m. An autopsy attributed his death to a single gunshot wound.

Authorities publicly identified Ayden the next day and said he was from nearby Rochester. Local reporting consistently placed the incident in the 2200 block of South 14th Street and described investigators processing a sprawling evening crime scene. In the days after the shooting, Crime Stoppers and Springfield police appealed for tips, noting the case remained unsolved and that no arrests had been announced.

If anyone in Rochester or Springfield has information about Ayden, the shooting, or saw activity near South 14th Street and Cornell Avenue that evening, please share what you know with investigators.