In the early evening of July 10, 2025, Dy’Shaun Terrell Atkins, a 16-year-old Black male, was shot inside a vacant townhouse on the 2500 block of East 49th Street in Cleveland’s Central neighborhood. Officers from the Cleveland Police Third District responded just before 7 p.m. to reports of gunfire and found two teens wounded; Dy’Shaun Atkins was taken to MetroHealth Medical Center, where he died. A 15-year-old also suffered injuries and survived.

City officials and local reporters identified Atkins the next day and noted he was known in the neighborhood for football and for family ties in Garden Valley. Detectives from the Cleveland Division of Police Homicide Unit opened an investigation and asked the public for tips; no arrests or suspect description had been announced in the reports that followed. The vacant townhouse setting and the presence of a second wounded teen are central details investigators are still trying to piece together.

If anyone knew Dy’Shaun or witnessed activity around East 49th Street on July 10, please contact Cleveland police or Crime Stoppers with information.