On Friday, September 29, 2017, Randolph Bell, a 29-year-old Black male from Philadelphia, was found wounded in a rear driveway on the 2000 block of West Cambria Street. Philadelphia police officers arrived at the scene and found that he had been shot. He was still alive when emergency responders took him to Temple University Hospital, but he died there later that afternoon.
The available public details leave only a narrow picture of what happened: Bell was discovered behind the block
where he lived, suffering from a gunshot wound, and the shooting became a homicide investigation in Philadelphia's 39th District. The police case file listed him as a resident of West Cambria Street, placing the violence close to home and turning an ordinary stretch of North Philadelphia into the last place he was found alive.
No publicly available source located reported an arrest, named suspect, charges, trial, or conviction in Randolph Bell's killing. The Philadelphia Police Department's unsolved-murders page continues to list the case as open and asks anyone with information to contact investigators or submit an anonymous tip. As of the available online case information, the person or people responsible for shooting him had not been publicly identified.
