Zaafir Tyray Jerry, a 17-year-old Black/African American male, was shot late on the morning of June 8, 2025, on the 2200 block of South Felton Street in Southwest Philadelphia. Officers arrived around 11:15 a.m. to find Zaafir Tyray Jerry, 17, male, suffering gunshot wounds to the head, hip, and back. He was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 11:52 a.m.
His death was later memorialized in regional obituary notices and by gun-violence remembrance pages that recorded the date and city of the killing.
Within ten days, investigators named and apprehended a suspect. On June 18, 2025, Philadelphia police announced that Raynald Francois, 30, had surrendered at police headquarters and was charged with murder and related offenses in the killing of Zaafir Tyray Jerry, 17, male. Local outlets reported the arrest and charges, noting that Francois is from West Philadelphia; authorities did not publicly release a detailed motive at that time.
Details released by authorities and reported in local media described a chaotic scene: responding officers recovered numerous spent shell casings and a firearm at the location where Zaafir Tyray Jerry, 17, male, was found. As the case moved forward, coverage emphasized the swift surrender of the accused and the formal filing of charges, while obituaries and memorial pages marked the loss of a teenager whose name joined a grim monthly count of Philadelphia homicide victims.
