Joseph Brown was 34 when he was shot dead in Philadelphia on Monday, September 5, 2016. Officers were called at about 6:34 a.m. to the 4700 block of North Broad Street in the city’s 35th Police District. They found Brown in a parking lot, unresponsive and suffering from a gunshot wound; Philadelphia Fire Department medics could not save him. Police later identified him as a resident of the 1900 block of North 18th Street.

The account of the incident is short: a man discovered shot in a parking lot at daybreak. The case remains listed by Philadelphia Police as an unsolved murder. No suspect has been publicly identified and there has been no arrest, charge, trial, or conviction mentioned. Anyone who knew Joseph, his routines, or who has information about that morning is asked to contact investigators. Who might have seen Joseph on the morning of September 5, 2016?