Aajion Wright, a 16-year-old Black male from Rochester, New York, was killed on the night of October 9, 2025, in the city’s 19th Ward. Near the 100 block of Warwick Avenue—close to Kirkland Road and off Chili Avenue—police were called at about 11 p.m. for reports that someone had been shot. When officers reached the area, they found him in a driveway between two houses, badly wounded by multiple gunshots. He was rushed to Strong Memorial Hospital, but he died shortly after arriving.
In the hours that followed, the scene on Warwick Avenue held the kind of stillness that comes after chaos: patrol cars lingering into the early morning, investigators working the perimeter, and neighbors trying to make sense of what had just happened on a residential stretch of road. Police said he did not live in that neighborhood, and at the start, they were still trying to piece together what brought him there and what sparked the gunfire.
Word of his death moved quickly through the school community. The Rochester City School District identified him as a student at Padilla High School at the Franklin Campus, and grief support was made available to students and staff as the loss settled in. To those who knew him as a classmate and friend, the case wasn’t a headline—it was a missing desk, an empty seat on a bus, a family suddenly forced to live in the after.
Weeks into the investigation, Rochester Police publicly identified a teenage suspect, saying Ke’yon Warren was believed to be the shooter and asking for help locating him while the circumstances behind the killing remained unclear. That request turned the case into a citywide search, with detectives urging anyone with information about what happened that night—or where the suspect had gone—to come forward.
The search ended later in November, when Warren was taken into custody in Rochester on a sealed indictment warrant with assistance from the U.S. Marshals Violent Felony Fugitive Task Force and local law enforcement. Authorities said he was charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon, and the case moved into the court system with a hearing scheduled for early December.
