Glenn Anthony Parker Jr., a 22-year-old Black male from Philadelphia, was killed in a shooting that online records place around September 19–20, 2021, with the police and funeral home records listing September 19 and the gun violence memorial page listing September 20. The Philadelphia Police Department's case page identified him as Glen Parker and said he lived on North 25th Street in Philadelphia.
The shooting unfolded on the 2000 block of West Cambria Street in North Philadelphia.
Police said officers responded at about 11:12 a.m. and found Glenn in the rear driveway of a residence. He had been shot multiple times. Medics took him to Temple University Hospital, where police records say he was pronounced dead at 11:41 a.m. The Philadelphia Inquirer also reported that police found a 22-year-old man shot multiple times in the head and torso on that block and later identified him as Glen Parker.
His death came during a violent stretch in Philadelphia. Inquirer reporting from that same period described a surge in shootings and homicides across the city, with several fatal shootings in North Philadelphia over one weekend. Glenn's killing was one of those cases, another young life taken amid a broader wave of gun violence that had left families and neighborhoods searching for answers.
For a time, the case was listed among Philadelphia's unsolved murders. The police case page later marked it as solved and stated that a suspect was arrested by Philadelphia Police on March 1, 2024. The suspect was charged with murder and related offenses, and the case outcome was listed as pending trial. The publicly available police summary did not name the suspect, and no reliable online source located outside the excluded site provided a suspect's name, detailed charging docket, trial result, conviction, or sentence.
