Dan Gregory Hayes Jr., a 24-year-old Black/African American male, was killed in Chester, Pennsylvania, just two days after his birthday, on June 4, 2019. He was known by several names depending on who was speaking of him: Dan to classmates, Greg to family, Tank to friends, and Mooters to his mother. He had grown up in the Chester-Upland community, graduated with the Chester High School class of 2013, and was remembered as someone with deep ties to sports, music, family, and the city around
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The shooting happened in Chester, and Hayes was later reported as having died at Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland. Publicly available accounts identify his death as the result of gun violence, with police responding to the area of the 500 block of West 10th Street after an ambulance call. When help arrived, Hayes had suffered gunshot wounds. The circumstances publicly described suggest a sudden act of violence that left him critically injured before he was taken for medical care, where he died the same day.
Hayes’ life had been rooted in movement and competition before it was cut short. He played baseball in Chester Little League, basketball with Chester Biddy, and football with the Chester Panthers and the Philadelphia 69th Street Wildcats. At Chester High School, he was remembered as a hard-playing running back and linebacker, the kind of player coaches described as someone who did not give up. He also ran track and pursued bodybuilding through the World Physique Federation USA. Away from sports, he enjoyed video games, writing rap lyrics, going to the studio with friends, and keeping up with clothing and sneakers.
The available public information does not identify a named suspect, nor does it show a publicly reported arrest, criminal charge, trial, or conviction tied to Hayes’ killing. The case appears in public gun violence memorial records and obituary-style memorial pages, but those sources do not provide a suspect narrative or a documented prosecution. Based on the accessible online information, his death remains publicly described as a fatal shooting in Chester without a confirmed publicly named person held accountable.
What remains most visible online is not a court record or a police resolution, but the memory of who Hayes was to the people who loved him. Family and friends described him as energetic, loving, funny, sarcastic, goofy, intelligent, and understanding. He was remembered as a son, brother, uncle, nephew, cousin, and friend whose life stretched across Chester’s schools, fields, courts, and neighborhoods before ending violently on West 10th Street.
