Robert Knight, a 34-year-old Black man from Philadelphia, was shot and killed on Saturday, June 28, 2014. Police were called about 3:04 p.m. to a residence on the 4200 block of Penn Street in the Frankford neighborhood, where Knight was found lying on the porch with a gunshot wound to the shoulder. Philadelphia Fire Department medics pronounced him dead at the scene.

Knight lived on the 400 block of Levick Street, close to where the shooting occurred. The police account is spare: a daylight shooting on a residential porch in the middle of the afternoon. The case remains listed as unsolved by Philadelphia Police; no suspect has been publicly identified and no arrests, charges, trials, or convictions have been reported.

Anyone who was in the area that afternoon or who has information about Knight’s death is asked to contact investigators.