Michael Allen, 19, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of July 3, 2025, in the East Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia. Allen, a Black male, had left his home on Wakefield Street for a ride on his electric scooter shortly after dawn. Minutes later, around 5:31 a.m., officers responding to a report of a person with a gun found him lying unresponsive on the 200 block of East Rittenhouse Street near Morton Playground; he had suffered a fatal gunshot wound to his face and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police initially said a motive was not immediately clear and released surveillance footage showing a white minivan believed to be connected to the shooting. For seven months there was no arrest; then on February 17, 2026, a fugitive task force took 19-year-old Tayvone Bibbs into custody and he was extradited from a Montgomery County correctional facility to face murder charges in Allen’s death. The case is pending trial.

Did anyone in East Germantown see a white minivan in the area that morning or have information about what happened to Michael Allen?