Harold Phillips

Harold Phillips was a 22-year-old Black man when his life ended in New York City on October 3, 1976. Inside his own apartment at 27 East 124th Street, the violence was blunt and intimate: he was beaten to death with a hammer, the kind of killing that leaves a room feeling less like a home and more like a crime scene that can’t be tidied away.

In the city outside, life kept moving, but the case did not immediately find its footing. The killing sat among other unsolved murders of young m ...

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Harold C. Phillips (1908-1976) - Find a Grave Memorial