Charles Wilson, a 54-year-old Black/African American male, was found wounded in Philadelphia on the afternoon of Wednesday, December 23, 2020. At about 2:56 p.m., Philadelphia police responded to the 1700 block of North 27th Street, where they found him lying in the street with a gunshot wound to his abdomen. The scene was in the 22nd District, in the Brewerytown/North Philadelphia area, not far from where Wilson lived on North 28th Street.
Wilson was still alive when first responders
reached him. He was taken to Temple University Hospital for treatment, but the injury proved fatal. According to the Philadelphia Police Department’s case information, he died from the wound on Friday, January 1, 2021. Although the shooting happened on December 23, 2020, the police source lists his death date as January 1, 2021.
The available public details do not describe what led up to the shooting, whether Wilson was targeted, whether there had been an argument, or whether anyone witnessed the gunfire. What is clear from the police summary is that he was discovered outside, badly wounded, and that the investigation moved from a shooting case into a homicide after he died days later.
Philadelphia police later marked the case as solved. The department’s public case page states that a suspect was arrested by Philadelphia police, but it does not identify the suspect by name in the available case summary. The same source says the case outcome was pending trial, and no additional publicly available details were found confirming the suspect’s name, charges, trial result, conviction, or sentencing.
