Earnest Pearson, a 45-year-old Black man from Philadelphia, was killed on Monday, August 3, 2015, inside an auto repair garage on the 2700 block of West Cabot Street in the Brewerytown section. Police were called shortly before early evening after a report connected to a person with a gun; officers found Pearson suffering from a gunshot wound and Philadelphia Fire Department medics pronounced him dead at the scene.

Investigators treated the case as a murder investigation and later listed it under an unsolved homicide, DC number 15-22-069356. Officers reported oily footprints, discarded clothing, and blood leading from the garage toward an apartment on the 2700 block of Girard Avenue, prompting a barricade response. A man was reportedly seen leaving the Girard Avenue home and was arrested during that response, but no named suspect, trial, conviction, or sentencing has been publicly tied to Pearson’s killing in the listings described.

Anyone with information about what happened inside or around the West Cabot Street auto shop that day is asked to contact the Philadelphia Police Department’s tip line.