In the early hours of a Monday in Philadelphia, the life of 22-year-old Boris Kimber Jr. was tragically cut short. On April 24, 2017, police responded to a call on the first block of East Penn Street in the East Germantown neighborhood. Inside the front room of a house, they found Boris Kimber Jr. unresponsive, having sustained several gunshot wounds.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The initial investigation into the male's death took an unusual turn when a 28-year-old man at the residence confessed to pulling the trigger. He informed officers that the shooting was the result of an argument that had escalated. Despite this on-scene admission, authorities did not immediately announce if the man would be charged with a crime, nor did they release his identity to the public.
In the days that followed, the motive was officially stated as an argument. However, law enforcement did not provide further details about the nature of the dispute or the relationship between the two men. Publicly available information regarding any arrests, formal charges, or subsequent legal proceedings in the death of Boris Kimber Jr. remains undisclosed. The case, like many others, left a family and community searching for answers and a sense of closure that may not have come.
