On the evening of Wednesday, October 19, 2016, 21-year-old Quaron Highsmith was fatally shot on the 3500 block of Wallace Street in Philadelphia at about 6:33 p.m. Philadelphia officers found him lying in the street with gunshot wounds to his shoulder and the lower left side of his back. He was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center but died later that evening.

Highsmith lived on the 200 block of North Robinson Street. The Philadelphia Police Department is investigating his homicide; no arrests have been announced and no suspects have been publicly identified. The case remains unsolved.

If anyone has information about Quaron Highsmith’s death or remembers seeing anything on Wallace Street that evening, please contact investigators.