James Benjamin Rivera, a 35-year-old Hispanic man, was killed in a random shooting on December 21, 2018, in the 1500 block of West Westmoreland Street in Philadelphia. Officers found Rivera on the sidewalk around 11:38 p.m. with a gunshot wound to his shoulder; he was taken to Temple University Hospital and died later that night. The case was classified as an unsolved murder and assigned DC# 18-39-091076.

Rivera was born in Langhorne and raised in Levittown, Pennsylvania, and had lived in Philadelphia for several years. He served as a combat infantryman in the US Army and had a passion for music. As of the latest update, there have been no arrests or identified suspects and the Philadelphia Police Department is seeking public help in the investigation.

Did anyone in the area on December 21, 2018, see or hear anything that could help identify who shot James Rivera?