Seventeen-year-old Antenio Louis Jr., a high school football player from Akron, Ohio, was shot and killed on August 16, 2023 while riding as a passenger in a Hyundai Sonata on E. Glenwood Avenue near Dan Street in the city’s North Hill neighborhood. Another vehicle pulled in front of theirs and opened fire; both Louis and the 23-year-old driver were shot. Louis was taken to Cleveland Clinic Akron General, where he died; the driver survived with injuries.

Fifteen minutes before the shooting Louis texted his aunt saying he was excited for practice and his first game the next day. The shooting prompted multiple arrests over the following months, including several people charged with aggravated murder and a 17-year-old charged with murder. Louis’s grandmother, Tracy Snyder, who raised him, said he had played football since age 8 and described him as a good, great kid; she is working to start a nonprofit called Ball for Teno to honor him and try to prevent future violence.

If anyone has information about the shooting or knew Antenio, please come forward and share what you know.