Fareed Muibi, a 24-year-old Black / African American male, was killed on Sunday, September 11, 2022, in Southwest Philadelphia. The shooting was reported in the late afternoon, around 4:26 to 4:30 p.m., on the 2100 block of Cemetery Avenue, near the Kingsessing area. When Philadelphia police arrived, they found Fareed suffering from a gunshot wound.
Medics responded, but he could not be saved and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Reports from the time described the wound as a gunshot to the head. Fareed was reportedly from the neighborhood and lived only a few blocks from where he was killed, making the scene not some distant, unfamiliar place, but an area close to home. The sudden violence unfolded on a Sunday afternoon, and by the time officers and emergency crews reached him, the shooting had already become a homicide investigation.
Investigators faced an early challenge at the scene because police said they did not find shell casings. One report noted that heavy downpours around the time of the shooting may have washed possible evidence into storm drains, complicating the search for physical clues. Without recovered casings at the scene, police were left trying to piece together what happened through other evidence, witnesses, and tips from the public.
No arrest was reported in the immediate aftermath of Fareed Muibi’s killing. Police said the search was on for the gunman and for a motive, but public reports did not identify a suspect by name. The case was later listed by Philadelphia Police Unsolved Murders under detective control number 22-12-051910, indicating that authorities continued to treat his death as an open, unsolved homicide.
As of the available public information, there are no confirmed details showing that anyone has been arrested, charged, tried, or convicted in connection with Fareed Muibi’s death. The public-facing case notices continued to ask anyone with information to come forward, leaving the central questions unanswered: who shot him, why he was targeted, and what happened in the moments before police were called to Cemetery Avenue.
