Ulysses Wideman, a 37-year-old Black male from Philadelphia, was listed in online homicide records as having been murdered in Philadelphia in 2012. The date provided for his death is September 8, 2012, placing his killing during a year when Philadelphia was experiencing a heavy burden of gun violence and unresolved homicide cases.
The publicly available online records located for Wideman’s case provide only a narrow outline of what happened.
They identify him as the victim of a homicide and state that the case remains open with no arrest. No detailed public narrative was found describing the exact block or neighborhood where he was killed, what he may have been doing in the moments before the attack, whether there were witnesses, or whether police released a motive.
Because the case is listed as open with no arrest, there are no publicly available details naming a suspect or suspects. No online records located for this synopsis showed that anyone had been charged in connection with Wideman’s death, and no arrest announcement, wanted notice, or suspect description was found in the available sources reviewed.
No conviction or sentencing information was found. Based on the available online case status, Wideman’s homicide appears to remain unsolved, meaning there is no public record of a trial, guilty plea, conviction, prison sentence, or other punishment connected to his killing.
