On the night of December 28, 2020, a street altercation in Philadelphia’s Lawncrest neighborhood ended with 24-year-old Ebony Kitchen shot dead on the 5800 block of Rising Sun Avenue. Police found her with multiple gunshot wounds at about 10:58 p.m.; medics pronounced her dead at 11:08 p.m.

Surveillance from a nearby smoke shop and real-time crime cameras captured a physical dispute involving Kitchen, a woman, and a man. Shortly afterward a different man approached and shot Kitchen in the head at point-blank range. That individual was identified as Savion Perez, then 23, and police arrested him on April 2, 2021, charging him with murder, conspiracy and gun offenses. Three co-defendants were also charged.

A key witness failed to appear at a July 21, 2021 preliminary hearing, and a judge dismissed the charges against Perez and the three co-defendants for lack of prosecution. The District Attorney refiled charges against the three co-defendants; the murder charge against Perez was not immediately refiled, and he was released from custody.

If anyone has information about the shooting or the people involved, please share what is known.