Seventeen-year-old Kristopher Heard was shot and killed on a Saturday afternoon in January 2022 in Philadelphia’s East Germantown neighborhood. Reports say he was struck multiple times in his upper torso and was pronounced dead shortly before 5:30 p.m. The killing came during a weekend that included several other shootings and added to the city’s rising homicide count for the year.

Philadelphia Police opened an investigation immediately after the shooting, but initial accounts did not name any suspects or report arrests. The circumstances that led to the shooting have not been released to the public, leaving family and neighbors without answers.

If anyone has information about what happened that afternoon or knew Kristopher, please come forward to assist the investigation.