On October 9, 2009, Edward Battles, a 17-year-old from Buffalo, New York, was shot while driving a Chevy in the city's Schiller Park neighborhood. The incident took place shortly after midnight along Genesee Street. Battles was one of the numerous young victims of gun violence in Buffalo that year. His murder is part of a broader pattern of unsolved homicides in the area during this period, reflecting the city's ongoing struggles with street violence and gun-related crimes.