Rashaan C. Barrett, identified in Philadelphia Police records as Rashan Barrett, was a 38-year-old Black male from Philadelphia whose life ended on Friday night, December 10, 2021, after gunfire erupted on the 1300 block of West Girard Avenue. Police records place the shooting in the city's 22nd District and state that officers responded at about 9:50 p.m., finding Barrett lying in the street after he had been struck by gunfire.
The response moved quickly from the street to the hospital.
Officers placed Barrett into a patrol vehicle and transported him to Temple University Hospital, but the efforts to save him did not succeed. He died that night, turning what began as a shooting call on West Girard Avenue into a homicide investigation. Funeral and memorial records list his full name as Rashaan C. Barrett and show his life span as July 23, 1983, to December 10, 2021.
Barrett was reported by police as having lived on North Capitol Street in Philadelphia. Public homicide listings and gun violence records also identify him as a victim killed by gun violence in Philadelphia on the same date. The available public records do not describe a motive, the number of shots fired, whether anyone else was injured, or what led up to the shooting. What is publicly clear is that Barrett was found outside, wounded in the street, and that his death followed soon after at Temple University Hospital.
The case remains listed by the Philadelphia Police Department's Unsolved Murders site as unsolved. No publicly available police case page or related online source located for this synopsis names a suspect, reports an arrest, or lists charges, trial proceedings, or a conviction connected to Barrett's killing. Philadelphia Police have continued to ask for help from the public, urging anyone with information, even a small detail, to contact the department's tip line so detectives can move the case forward.
