Rasheen Broadnax, a 31-year-old male, was killed on June 10, 2015, in Philadelphia’s Hartranft section. He lived on 9th Street near Huntingdon Street, not far from where the shooting unfolded. That night, police were called to the area of 8th Street and Lehigh Avenue for a report of a person with a gun, and when officers arrived they found Broadnax lying on the sidewalk, bleeding from gunshot wounds to his chin, neck, and torso.
Paramedics rushed Broadnax to Temple University Hospital
as the violence of the scene gave way to an urgent attempt to save him. Doctors pronounced him dead just after 10 p.m. The public details released at the time did not explain what led to the shooting, and police did not list a motive.
Two weeks later, Philadelphia police made an arrest in the case. Raymond S. Latane, 27, of Preston Street near Fairmount Avenue in the Belmont section of the city, was arrested and jailed without bail in connection with Broadnax’s death. He was held pending a preliminary hearing scheduled for July 8, 2015.
The arrest gave the case a named suspect, but the available online source did not provide further details about what investigators believed led to the shooting, what evidence tied Latane to the killing, or whether the case later ended in a trial, plea, conviction, acquittal, or dismissal.
