Royston Webb, a 28-year-old Black male from Philadelphia, was killed on May 23, 2015, in the city’s 35th Police District. The afternoon began with a call for help at an apartment on the 5600 block of Ogontz Avenue. At about 12:45 p.m., Philadelphia Police officers arrived and found Webb inside the apartment, unresponsive and suffering from gunshot wounds. He had been shot twice, with one police listing describing the wounds as being to the back of his head.
Medical personnel responded, but there was nothing they could do to save him, and he was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after officers arrived.
Webb’s death was treated as a homicide, and the circumstances suggest a sudden, targeted act of violence inside a residential setting rather than a public confrontation. He was listed as living on the 1600 block of Dyre Street in Philadelphia, meaning the Ogontz Avenue apartment where he was found was not described as his home address in the public police summary. The available public details do not explain why he was at that apartment, who else may have been present, whether there were signs of forced entry, or whether detectives believed he knew the person who shot him.
No public online source located identifies an arrest, named suspect, person of interest, or charged defendant in Royston Webb’s killing. The case remains presented by Philadelphia police as an unsolved murder, with investigators asking anyone with information to contact the department. Because no arrest or suspect information is publicly available, there are also no reported court proceedings, trial outcomes, convictions, sentencing details, or punishment connected to the case.
