Earl Martin was recorded as a homicide victim on June 28, 2007. He was an 83-year-old Black man from Philadelphia and the location tied to his death is the 500 block of North Hobart Street, a residential section of West Philadelphia. The available record does not describe how he was found, the cause of death, or what led investigators to classify the case as a homicide.

Martin’s name appears in Philadelphia’s 2007 homicide listings amid a year when the city recorded murders at a pace of about one per day. Beyond the date, block, name, and age, there is little public detail to explain who killed him or why.

If anyone knew Earl Martin, lived near North Hobart Street in June 2007, or has information about this case, please come forward with what was seen or remembered that day.