Naim Jahace Bayete, 21, was fatally shot in Erie, Pennsylvania, on March 18, 2023. The shooting occurred in the 800 block of East 21st Street after an earlier brief exchange of words at about 3:20 a.m. at a Speed Check gas station at East 18th and Parade streets. Bayete was found with a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene; the Erie County Coroner ruled his death a homicide.

Surveillance footage captured the initial encounter at the gas station and later showed a man parking, concealing himself between houses, then approaching Bayete’s vehicle and firing multiple shots. Investigators used surveillance video and license plate reader data to link the vehicle to a residence where clothing matching the footage was recovered. A friend later said he disposed of a handgun and clothing that had been left with him; the firearm was recovered from a mailbox. The motive for the killing remains unclear.

Does anyone have information about Bayete’s last movements, or recall the area around East 18th and Parade that morning?