On the evening of August 16, 2021, Harold Haughton, 51, was fatally shot while standing with others outside a beer distributor in the Southwest section of Philadelphia. The group was at the corner of 57th Street and Elmwood Avenue at about 10:00 p.m. when an unknown assailant approached on foot and opened fire. Haughton was struck multiple times, rushed to a nearby hospital, and pronounced dead at 10:29 p.m.

Two other men were wounded: a 38-year-old shot in the left leg and taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and a 34-year-old who suffered a graze wound to the left thigh and went to Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital; both were reported stable. No arrests had been announced and the shooter fled southbound on 57th Street. The motive and the identity of the shooter have not been released.

If anyone witnessed the shooting at 57th and Elmwood or has information about who was responsible, please share what is known with investigators.