Corey Jaynes, a 30-year-old Black male, was killed late on Wednesday, December 16, 2020, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during a cold, snowy night when gun violence struck several parts of the city. Police were called to the 2300 block of Tasker Street in South Philadelphia at about 11:08 p.m. and found Corey lying in the street, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
The shooting was especially brutal.
Reporting from the time described Corey as having been shot several times in the head, and police listed his death as a homicide. Officers rushed him to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, but he did not survive. He died that same night after being found wounded on Tasker Street.
Corey was reported to have lived on Alcott Street in Philadelphia. His killing happened amid a broader surge of violence in the city, with several other shootings occurring that same night and into the following morning. Local reporting described three people killed in shootings across Philadelphia as snow and sleet fell, placing Corey’s death within one of the city’s most violent years in decades.
No public source located reported an arrest in Corey Jaynes’s murder. The Philadelphia Police Department’s unsolved murder listing continues to ask the public for information, which indicates the case remained open with no publicly identified suspect, no announced charges, and no reported trial or conviction. Investigators have asked anyone with information about who shot Corey on Tasker Street to contact Philadelphia Police through the department’s tip line.
