Jovan Dixon-Bradley was 19 when she was killed by gun violence in Philadelphia on May 5, 2008. Records list her as Jovan Dixon-Bradley and as Jovan K. Dixon Bradley; news coverage notes she was a daughter whose father mourned her sudden death.

She had been college-bound, planning to begin as a freshman at Virginia State University, a detail that frames the loss as the end of a young life on the cusp of independence. Her name appears in a national gun violence memorial for that date, recorded as lost to gun violence in Philadelphia.

If anyone has information about what happened to Jovan on May 5, 2008, please come forward.