Kristopher Barnes was a 20-year-old Black man found shot in the Castor section of Northeast Philadelphia in the early days of November 2009. Police records give the assault date as November 3, 2009; he was discovered about 6:00 p.m. in the 6700 block of Oakland Street, a short distance from where he lived. Barnes had been shot twice in the head and was taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center, where he died at 2:18 a.m. on November 4.

At the time his name was released, investigators had not announced a motive or identified any suspects; reporting noted both motive and suspect information were undetermined. The case was recorded among Philadelphia’s 2009 homicide victims and was mentioned alongside another fatal shooting that occurred in the city within a short span.

Did anyone in the Castor neighborhood at that time see or hear anything that could help explain what happened?