Edward Atkinson, a 36-year-old White male, was killed on the night of January 13, 2016, after police were called to West Philadelphia. Around 8:08 p.m., Philadelphia Police officers responded to the 300 block of North Gross Street, where they found Atkinson behind a retail pharmacy suffering from multiple stab wounds. Another report placed the scene along the 300 block of North 63rd Street, identifying it as a West Philadelphia stabbing.
Atkinson was not left there long before emergency
help arrived. Philadelphia Fire Department medics transported him to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, but the injuries were too severe, and he died later that evening. Online reports identified him as Edward J. Atkinson of Havertown, Pennsylvania, with an obituary noting that he died suddenly on January 13, 2016. He was remembered by family as “Eddie,” a son, brother, uncle, and friend whose death came at a young age.
The available online source information does not identify a suspect or describe a motive for the stabbing. No arrest, charge, trial, or conviction was found in the available reporting. Philadelphia’s unsolved homicide listing states that the case remains open, meaning investigators had not publicly reported a resolution in the sources reviewed.
