On August 21, 2024, at about 3:49 a.m., Philadelphia police responded to a shooting on the 2000 block of North Bodine Street. Ruben Ramos, 56 and a resident of that block, had been taken by private vehicle to Episcopal Hospital after suffering gunshot wounds and was later transferred to Temple University Hospital, where he died that evening.

Family members said Ramos had confronted someone attempting to break into a neighbor’s home. According to those accounts, Ramos carried a machete to deter the intruder, who was armed with a firearm and shot Ramos before fleeing. Neighbors remembered him as a Good Samaritan who often helped others; an online memorial described him as an amazing human being who treated everyone with love and respect.

The shooting devastated Ramos’s family and the tight-knit neighborhood. What details about the incident or the person who fired the shots can anyone in the area add to help investigators?