Rashad Edmond was 20 when he was shot in his hometown of Gary, Indiana. Born October 11, 1998, to Tamika White and Robert Edmond, he had lived and attended school in Fridley, Minnesota, and Gary. Family and friends recalled him as joyful with a bright smile.The shooting occurred the night of January 3, 2019, in a home on the 6000 block of Hemlock Avenue in Gary’s Miller section. Rashad was asleep on a recliner when he suffered a gunshot wound to his forehead.

He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center and died of his injuries on January 6, 2019.Officials later charged a longtime family friend, Courteau Dupree Yayo Givens, with murder. Witnesses related to each other said they woke to a gunshot and saw Givens standing over Rashad holding a gun; one witness reportedly took the gun and it was turned over to police. A firearms examiner testified the casing at the scene was fired from that gun. At trial the defense challenged witness credibility and crime-scene details, and jurors ultimately acquitted Givens in April 2021.

Does anyone have memories of Rashad or information about that night that could shed more light on what happened?