Seventeen-year-old Yacere Bush was shot on the 1900 block of West Sedgley Avenue in Philadelphia on the night of Monday, September 9, 2024. Officers responding about 11:53 p.m. found medical personnel treating the young Black male, who had sustained multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to Temple University Hospital, where he died of those injuries on Tuesday, September 10, 2024. Bush lived on the same block where he was shot.

The investigation remains open and no arrests or public identifications of suspects have been announced. Detectives have asked anyone with information to contact the Philadelphia Police Department to help move the case forward.

If anyone on or near West Sedgley Avenue that night saw something or has information about this shooting, please come forward to investigators.