Tracy Briscoe, a 19-year-old Black/African American male from Philadelphia, was killed on June 26, 2013, in North Philadelphia. The shooting happened around 8:50 p.m. at Germantown and Indiana avenues, outside a bar in a busy stretch of the neighborhood. Police identified him as the person shot in the head that night, and he was taken to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly afterward.
The scene left investigators with urgent questions. Online reporting said police recovered a gun from Briscoe’s waistband, and detectives were reviewing surveillance from the area to determine whether cameras captured the shooting or the moments leading up to it. The available reports did not describe a clear motive, a confrontation, or the identity of the person who fired the fatal shot.
No arrest, named suspect, charges, trial, or conviction connected specifically to Briscoe’s death was found in the available online sources reviewed. The case appears in public reporting as a fatal North Philadelphia shooting in which investigators were still looking for evidence immediately afterward, including possible surveillance footage.
Older online reports also show that Briscoe had been arrested in 2011 in an unrelated North Philadelphia carjacking and shooting case with Kareem Long. In that incident, police accused the two of approaching a car on Germantown Avenue, shooting two occupants, stealing the vehicle, and later being arrested at Briscoe’s home. Those reports describe prior charges against Briscoe, but they do not identify those events as an arrest, suspect lead, or proven motive in his 2013 killing.
