On the night of Friday, December 19, 2014, at about 9:41 p.m., Joel Roman, a 29-year-old Black man who lived on Ridge Avenue in Philadelphia, was found in the 3100 block of North Hartville Street with multiple gunshot wounds. Police and emergency responders took him to Temple University Hospital, where he died that same night.

The shooting prompted an immediate homicide investigation, but the circumstances of the attack remain unclear. No suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests have been announced; the case is listed as an unsolved homicide. A reward has been offered for information that leads to an arrest and conviction.

If anyone has information about what happened that evening on North Hartville Street or knows anything that could help Joel Roman’s family and investigators, please come forward.