Online homicide listings give an assault date of July 28, 2001, and record his date of death as June 10, 2010, tying the matter to the 800 block of East Chelten Avenue. The available entries do not describe the injuries, the circumstances of the 2001 attack, or what transpired during the nearly nine-year interval before his death.

Wilson’s name is recorded amid a violent year for Philadelphia, which logged more than 300 homicides in 2010.

Did anyone in the community know Vernon Wilson or have information about the 2001 assault or events leading to his death?