BRADENTON - Tammy Edwards peeped through a window Friday night and saw a man sprawled on the street in front of her home.

She called 911. At about 9 p.m., deputies arrived at her home in the 1700 block of 27th Avenue East.

As Edwards watched, a deputy pointed a flashlight on the man’s face. Edwards recognized him.

“That’s my nephew,” she said.

Kenya Cox, 19, was shot once. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Cox was the fourth homicide victim of the year. Deputies are investigating and following several leads.

Saturday Edwards placed white orchids in a cup on the spot where her nephew died. The pavement where Cox was found the night before was still wet.

Tom Moore, a neighbor who lives across from Edwards’ home, said a fire truck arrived at about 3 a.m. and washed the blood from the pavement.

On Friday night, Moore said he was home when he heard one gunshot.

“That’s all it was,” he said. “One shot.”

When he looked outside, Moore saw deputies on the street.

Next door, Jennifer Davis also heard one gunshot, and then tires screeching. But she didn’t think anything of the gunshot, she said, because random shots have been fired in that area regularly since New Year’s Eve.

But when she saw flashing lights through her window, she opened the door and saw deputies.

“I was just shocked that it happened so close to home,” she said. “It’s a shame.”

On Jan. 9, Ina Gross, 78, was found dead by her 57-year-old son, Tom, in the two-car garage of her home in the 19000 block of Hyacinth Place in Lakewood Ranch. The sheriff’s office said her homicide was not random.

On Jan. 6, 22-year-old Christopher S. Stokes was shot dead inside an abandoned house in the 500 block of 28th Avenue West, Bradenton.

On Jan. 1, 26-year-old Rashawn Scott was shot dead inside a rooming house in the 2300 block of Fifth Avenue Drive East, Palmetto.

No arrests have been made in any of the homicides.