Malik Dajuan Carter, a 29-year-old Black/African American male, was killed on the night of June 23, 2014, in West Philadelphia. The shooting happened near Market and Salford Streets, on the same block where Carter lived. According to police reporting at the time, Carter was shot multiple times at about 9:32 p.m., but he was still able to reach out for help in the moments after the attack.
He flagged down a passing police officer and told authorities that he had been robbed by someone in a white van.
Carter was rushed to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, but doctors pronounced him dead at 10:04 p.m. The early police account pointed to robbery as the suspected motive, leaving the picture of a sudden street encounter that turned fatal very quickly. The detail Carter was able to give before he died — that the robber was connected to a white van — appears to have been the clearest public description tied to the suspect or suspects.
In the months after his death, Carter’s family remembered him publicly with grief and affection. A memorial notice described his death as the result of “selfish gain,” “senseless pride,” and “someone’s greed,” words that echo the police theory that robbery played a role. His family wrote about missing him deeply, holding on to memories of his smile, and waiting to see him again “on the other side.” Other condolences remembered him as respectful, funny, full of life, and gone too soon.
Publicly available online sources do not show a named suspect, arrest, charges, trial, or conviction in Carter’s killing. The reports located identify the case as a fatal shooting connected to an apparent robbery, but they do not provide a confirmed offender beyond Carter’s statement about being robbed by someone in a white van. Based on the available online information, the case appears to have remained without a publicly reported arrest or prosecution.
