Rudolph C. Manny Ebinger III, 37, was fatally shot just after midnight on January 1, 2021, in the 100 block of Ritner Street in South Philadelphia. He was struck in the thigh and was pronounced dead at Jefferson Hospital shortly before 1 a.m. He was born December 29, 1983, to Elizabeth Sissy Potts and the late Rudolph Ebinger Jr., and had lived in South Philadelphia his whole life. Ebinger worked in the contracting industry and was remembered by family and friends as kind, loving, and caring.

Police arrested a suspect later that day, though authorities did not release the name while the investigation and charging process continued. The shooting was the first homicide of 2021 in Philadelphia and occurred amid other fatal shootings across the city on New Year’s Day. Anyone who knew Ebinger or has information about the incident is asked to come forward.