Wyllyam James Sheffey Jr., 20, of Ashtabula, was killed on the evening of June 7, 2025, in downtown Painesville, Ohio. Police responded just before 8 p.m. to North State Street and Rockwood Drive and found him in the driver’s seat of his car, which had stopped in the roadway; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Two other people in the area suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Witnesses reported hearing dozens of shots, and police determined the attack was a targeted act of violence rather than random gunfire tied to a nearby block party. Investigators described the shooting as a coordinated ambush in which several assailants used multiple vehicles to box in the victim’s car while people positioned around it opened fire.

No arrests had been announced as of November 5, 2026. Does anyone have information about Wyllyam’s movements in Painesville that evening or witnessed the shooting at North State and Rockwood?