Edward Wade Jr., 22, was killed by gunfire inside a market in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C., on the morning of January 25, 2021. He had just bought coffee and was entering a second market on Good Hope Road SE while his mother, Christine Wade, waited in her car. Police and medics arrived shortly after 8:54 a.m. and found Wade fatally wounded on the floor; two other men also suffered gunshot wounds, and two victims later reached local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.

A college student about to graduate from Virginia Union University who planned to join the Marine Corps, Wade was a graduate of Anacostia High School and was remembered for a lovely spirit and an outgoing personality. The Metropolitan Police Department identified suspects quickly: 21-year-old Terrance Oxner of Manassas, Virginia, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder while armed on the day of the shooting, and on March 22 a 17-year-old, Aaron Adgerson, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder while armed and to be tried as an adult.

Anyone with information about Wade or the shooting is asked to come forward.