Charles Gossett, 50, was fatally shot in the early morning hours of September 5, 2022. Gossett, a Black man also known as Chali Khan, worked as a producer and director and was active in non-violence community initiatives. The shooting happened about 2:06 a.m. outside the Bleu Brook restaurant and lounge in Overbrook on the 1700 block of North 56th Street, where he had been attending a friend’s birthday party. Police found him in the street and he died that morning at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.

Investigators identified 32-year-old Jahmir Harris as a suspect and alleged he drove two shooters to and from the restaurant; surveillance footage reportedly shows Harris at the scene and approaching Gossett in the parking lot before returning to a vehicle that transported the attackers. Two other suspects have not been publicly identified. On October 21, 2022, Harris turned himself in and was charged with murder in connection with Gossett’s death. Harris had been released from prison in March 2021 after a 2012 murder conviction was overturned; the Conviction Integrity Unit had sought that reversal because evidence had been withheld from his defense in the earlier trial.

Does anyone who knew Charles or was in the area that night have information that could help fill in the timeline?