April,9 1998

Victim: Rodney Leidig, age 18

Date: April 9, 1998

Address: 300 Treewood Street
Synopsis: Rodney Leidig and two friends were standing on the sidewalk on the south side of 300 Treewood Street, when two suspects began shooting at them from the yard of a house on the corner of Treewood and Sweetwood. Leidig and his friends immediately took off running westbound, at which point Leidig was hit and went down. Leidig’s friends ran to a neighbor’s house for help. They then returned to the area to check on Leidig and found him lying on the ground suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. They were trying to load Leidig into their car to take him to the hospital when the first police officers, responding to a radio call of shots fired, arrived at the scene. Paramedics responded, but by the time they arrived Leidig had passed away.

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