Syracuse teen faces murder charge in Lemoyne Avenue shooting

Police have charged 18-year-old Shawuan Boatwright with second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in the Lemoyne Avenue shooting that left Tyrone Stanley dead on Syracuse’s North Side.

Syracuse police said officers were sent to 211 Lemoyne Avenue at about 7:44 p.m. on May 19 after reports of a shooting with injuries. Sgt. Thomas Blake later said the call came in at about 7:47 p.m. When officers arrived, they found Stanley with a gunshot wound and gave medical aid at the scene before he was taken to University Hospital for life-saving treatment.

Stanley was later identified as a 38-year-old Syracuse man who had been shot in the chest in the 200 block of Lemoyne Avenue. Police said the case quickly became a homicide investigation, and Boatwright was charged Thursday in connection with Stanley’s death. That sequence matters for neighbors because it shows detectives moved from an emergency response on Lemoyne Avenue to a formal murder prosecution in less than two weeks.

The shooting took place near Washington Square Park, a North Side neighborhood park that sits close to homes, streets and everyday foot traffic. For residents around Lemoyne Avenue, the case is about more than one arrest. It raises immediate questions about whether anyone else was involved, what led to the gunfire and how the block will feel in the evenings while the investigation continues.

The charges also land in a city that has been watching violent crime closely. Syracuse homicides in 2025 were reported as the fewest in more than a decade, a statistic that gave police and residents some reason for cautious optimism even as individual shootings continued to shake neighborhoods. The Syracuse Police Department’s COMPSTAT process, which reviews recent Part I crime in weekly meetings covering three-week periods, keeps pressure on commanders to respond quickly when a shooting turns deadly.

Boatwright now faces the next stage of the court process on two felony charges, while detectives continue working the case details. For the North Side, the central fact remains stark: a late-evening shooting on Lemoyne Avenue ended with a dead 38-year-old man, a charged 18-year-old suspect and a neighborhood still waiting for a full accounting of what happened inside that residence.