Juwan Washington was a 19-year-old Black / African American male from Cleveland, Ohio, whose life was cut short on Memorial Day, May 31, 2021, after a shooting outside a gas station in East Cleveland. The day was still in the early evening when police were called to the Mobil Gas Station in the 15300 block of Euclid Avenue, near Shaw Avenue, for a report of a male who had been shot.
When officers arrived around 5:26 p.m., they found Juwan lying on his back outside the gas station,
unresponsive. Police and emergency responders tried to save him, with officers providing first aid until EMS arrived. He was taken to University Hospitals Emergency Medical Center, but he could not be revived. He was pronounced dead at 5:44 p.m., less than twenty minutes after police were dispatched.
The shooting left behind only a brief public account of what happened. Authorities did not publicly describe the moments leading up to the gunfire, whether Juwan had been targeted, whether there had been an argument, or whether the shooter fled on foot or in a vehicle. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation responded to assist with the case, signaling that the shooting was being treated as a serious homicide investigation.
Publicly available reporting from the time stated that no arrests had been made, and police had not said what led to the shooting. No suspect or suspects were named in the available online reports. Investigators asked anyone who had been near the Mobil Gas Station on Euclid Avenue, or anyone with information that could help detectives, to contact the East Cleveland Detective Bureau.
Juwan’s death was later listed by a gun violence memorial source as a fatal shooting in Cleveland on May 31, 2021. The memorial page also noted personal details submitted in his memory, including the nickname “Wan,” that he had one child, and that someone remembered him as respectful. Beyond those personal traces and the initial news coverage, the public record found online does not show a known arrest, filed charges, trial, or conviction connected to his killing.
