Lavell Scales, 55, was shot the evening of June 20, 2025, along the 1300 block of East 117th Street in Cleveland’s Forest Hills neighborhood. Responding officers found two men wounded; both were taken to University Hospitals’ main campus, where Scales was pronounced dead from his injuries. The other victim, Edward Walker, 55, suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen that authorities described as non-life-threatening.

The shooting left a visible mark on the block as neighbors recalled the chaos and the fast arrival of first responders. Detectives later identified a suspect and secured warrants for aggravated murder and felonious assault; on September 12, 2025, members of the U.S. Marshals Service’s Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force arrested 43-year-old Verdine Glover at an East Cleveland apartment. The arrest brought the case out of the summer’s search and into the court process.

Did anyone in the area see or hear anything on the night of June 20 that could help investigators piece together what happened?