Baylen Waters, a 45-year-old Black male from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was shot on Sunday night, October 25, 2015, on the 5100 block of Reno Street in Philadelphia. At about 10:59 p.m., Philadelphia Police officers were called to the block and found him lying in the street with multiple gunshot wounds. The scene appears to have unfolded suddenly and violently, leaving Waters critically injured before officers could get him to medical care.
Police placed Waters in a patrol vehicle and
rushed him to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was admitted in critical condition. He survived for several days after the shooting, but his injuries were too severe. Waters died on Saturday, October 31, 2015. Online police case information lists him as having lived on the 5100 block of Funston Street in Philadelphia.
The case is listed by Philadelphia Police as an open unsolved murder under DC# 15-16-048412 in the 16th Police District. The available online sources do not name any suspect or suspects, and they do not report that anyone has been arrested in connection with Waters’ death. Police continued to seek information from the public and asked anyone with knowledge of the shooting to contact the Philadelphia Police Department tip line.
Because no arrest or identified suspect is listed in the available online case information, there are also no reported charges, trial details, convictions, sentencing outcomes, or punishment connected to the killing of Baylen Waters. As reflected in the available sources, his case remains open, with investigators still relying on tips that could help explain who shot him on Reno Street and why.
