Lemuel Cole, a 23-year-old Black man from Philadelphia, was killed on December 13, 2011, on the 2400 block of North Hollywood Street in North Philadelphia. The case file contains few specifics about how the killing occurred; the immediate circumstances and sequence of events on that cold Tuesday are not described publicly.

The Philadelphia Police Department’s Homicide Unit was handling many killings that year, and investigators canvassed the neighborhood in the aftermath, but the key facts about who was present and what led to the violence remain unreported.

If anyone has information about Lemuel Cole, his life, or the events on North Hollywood Street on December 13, 2011, please come forward with what you know.