On the early morning of July 18, 2025, 29-year-old Nkechi Sprowal was shot multiple times in the face and head outside Deliverance Evangelistic Church on the 2000 block of West Lehigh Avenue in North Philadelphia. The attack occurred about 1 a.m.; Sprowal was found against a fence as the block fell quiet. Investigators recovered shell casings, reviewed surveillance and witness accounts from the church frontage and surrounding corners, and described the attack as appearing targeted rather than random.

The scene quickly became both a crime scene and a makeshift vigil while detectives canvassed for leads and traced Sprowal’s final movements in the hours before the ambush. On July 29, 2025, detectives arrested and charged 37-year-old Shaheed Kilber with Sprowal’s murder; prosecutors cited the gunshot wounds to her face and head in filing homicide charges. Does anyone have information about Sprowal’s last known movements that night or saw something near the church around 1 a.m. on July 18?