Isaiah Justin Pagan, 19, was shot and killed on the evening of December 20, 2023, inside a mini-mart at a gas station on the 5200 block of Oxford Avenue in the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia. A gunman entered the store shortly after 6 p.m. and opened fire; Isaiah was struck multiple times, found unresponsive by responding officers, and later pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital. Two other people were wounded: a 19-year-old man shot in the leg while sitting in a car outside, and a woman in her late twenties who suffered a graze wound to her foot while pumping gas. Both were hospitalized in stable condition.

Isaiah was a White male known for his athletic talent and ambition. A talented baseball pitcher with an 89 mph fastball, he had recently started an apprenticeship as a glazer in September 2023 and had invested in real estate, purchasing and renting a home at age 18. Family remembered him as goofy, lovable, and devoted to helping his relatives after his father’s car accident left him unable to work.

What can readers who knew Isaiah or witnessed the shooting add to help piece together what happened that night?