Marckus Tyrone Banks, 33, a Black/African American male from Chester, Pennsylvania, was killed on September 26, 2013, in the city where he lived. The case centered on the area behind the 100 block of East 23rd Street, where Banks was found in an alley suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. What had been an ordinary late-September evening became the scene of a homicide investigation as police and emergency responders converged on the block and Banks was taken for medical treatment.
Banks
was transported to Crozer-Chester Medical Center, but the wounds to his chest were fatal. He was pronounced dead later that night, and the death was treated as a homicide. Chester police responded to the scene, with county detectives and crime scene personnel assisting as the investigation moved from the alley to the hospital and then into the search for whoever had opened fire.
The publicly available online information located for this case does not identify a named suspect, an arrest, criminal charges, a trial, or a conviction connected to Banks's killing. No publicly available suspect narrative could be confirmed from the sources located, and the case appears in online material as an unresolved shooting death rather than as a prosecution with a documented defendant. The available details leave the central questions unanswered: who confronted Banks that night, what led to the shooting, and whether investigators ever developed enough evidence to bring charges.
