Ashanti Morgan

Ashanti Morgan was a 20-year-old resident of York, Pennsylvania. Public records and contemporaneous news reporting identify him by name and age and place his death on May 25, 2021. While the public record about Ashanti concentrates on the circumstances surrounding his passing, that paper trail also confirms he was a young man rooted in the York community.

Shortly after his death the York County Coroner’s records list Ashanti O. Morgan with a date of death of May 25, 2021, and local news reporting from the time identified him as a 20‑year‑old of York. Those same local sources reported that the shooting occurred in the 500 block of McKenzie Street and that investigators believed the shooting was targeted. Beyond these official facts, the wider public record is limited and there is no family-published full obituary located in funeral-home or obituary archives that matches the exact death date for use as a family-authorized memorial.

Out of respect for Ashanti and for readers seeking to remember him, it is important to center what is known: he was a young person from York whose life mattered to family and community members. In the years after his death, family members have worked to honor his memory and to take action in response to the tragedy — efforts that underscore how his life continues to matter to those who loved him. This brief remembrance acknowledges the limits of the public record while holding space for Ashanti as a person beyond the recorded circumstances of his death.