Renee Cosom, a 42-year-old Black woman from Philadelphia, was shot and killed inside her Northeast Philadelphia home on Greeby Street on January 29, 2018. Police found Cosom dead in a second-floor hallway and her mother, Adeline Hill, 66, dead in a first-floor wheelchair; both were pronounced dead at the scene. Officers recovered a .38 Special revolver in a bedroom with two fired casings and three live rounds.

Cosom lived with her mother and with boyfriend Michael Drennon, who was on house arrest at the residence at the time. Drennon initially told police that two men had entered the house and tried to point suspicion at Cosom’s former boyfriend, James Crawford. Investigators noted a prior violent incident: in December 2016 Drennon shot Crawford, who survived, and Drennon was charged in that attack. Detectives interviewed Drennon at length after the 2018 deaths and later arrested and charged him with two counts of first-degree murder and related offenses.

At trial prosecutors linked the murders to the earlier shooting and the relationships among Cosom, Drennon, and Crawford. A jury found Michael Drennon guilty of the killings and related charges, and he was sentenced to life without parole on September 30, 2021. The Pennsylvania Superior Court later affirmed the judgment of sentence in 2023.

Did anyone know Renee or the family and have details about her life or the home on Greeby Street?