Paulo Cortes

Paulo Cortes, a 24-year-old Hispanic / Latino male from Philadelphia, was listed among the city's 2010 homicide victims after an incident on November 25, 2010. The available online homicide list records that he was assaulted and died the same day, and it places the case at the 4400 block of North I Street in Philadelphia. The listing is spare, but it fixes the essentials of the case: his name, the date of death, his age, and the block where he was found.

The public record that was available online does not tell a full story of what happened in the moments before Cortes died. What it leaves behind is a narrow outline: Thanksgiving Day in 2010 became the day his life ended, and his name was added to a long list of Philadelphia homicide victims from that year. City crime data sources describe Philadelphia Police Department incident data as covering Part I and Part II offenses, including violent crimes, but the public-facing dataset cautions that figures can be preliminary and subject to reclassification as investigations continue.

I found no reliable online source that identified a suspect or suspects in Cortes's killing. I also found no online source showing that anyone was arrested, charged, tried, convicted, sentenced, or otherwise punished for his death. Based on the available online sources, the case appears publicly unresolved, with no documented arrest or court outcome tied to Paulo Cortes's homicide.