A West Philadelphia grocery store shooting left 15-year-old Seth Rysean Marshall dead on the afternoon of May 21, 2025. Police responded about 2:15 p.m. to the store on the 5400 block of Race Street after reports of gunfire and found Marshall and a 16-year-old companion with multiple gunshot wounds. The teen companion was taken to a nearby medical center in critical condition; Marshall was pronounced dead at the scene.

A 22-year-old resident of West Philadelphia, Jaquan Higgs, remained at the location and was taken into custody. He was charged with murder and attempted murder and told police he acted in self-defense, saying the two teenagers were armed. Surveillance footage from inside the store showed neither teenager drawing a weapon before Higgs opened fire; it also showed Marshall standing near the front of the store with a handgun tucked into his waistband while he was looking at his phone. Witnesses reportedly moved Marshall’s semi-automatic handgun with an extended magazine and placed it under a car across the street, where police later recovered it along with another weapon inside the store. Marshall was also wanted on weapons charges in a neighboring county at the time of his death.

Are there witnesses who saw what led up to the shots being fired or who can clarify the sequence captured on video?