Cedric Suave Bandz McEaddy

Cedric “Suave Bandz” McEaddy was a 17-year-old young man from the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. While public records about his early life, schooling, and private interests are limited in the public record, the name Cedric McEaddy — and the date May 18, 2016 — appear in official and community sources that remember him among the local young people lost to gun violence.

Those who cite Cedric describe him by the nickname Suave Bandz, a personal detail that speaks to how friends and neighbors knew him: by a name that belonged to him and to his circles. Though detailed personal tributes or a family-published obituary have not been located in publicly accessible funeral-home notices or major obituary indexes, court and community records confirm his identity, age, and the date he died. That limited public record underscores that Cedric was a real person whose life mattered to family and community even if a longer public memorial was not published.

For young people like Cedric, everyday hopes — finishing school, spending time with family and friends, and building a future — are the quiet facts of a life. Remembering Cedric means acknowledging him as more than a headline: a teenager known by a nickname, from a Brooklyn neighborhood, whose life was part of the fabric of his community. Though details available publicly are few, the respect due to his memory is not. May this brief remembrance hold space for the family, friends, and neighbors who knew him best and carry his memory forward.