Chad F. Barnette, a 31-year-old Black male from Philadelphia, was fatally shot in East Mount Airy after what police described as a robbery. The shooting was reported late on October 17, 2011, and the case carried into the early minutes of October 18, when Barnette died from his injuries. Records place him on the 1500 block of East Cardenza Street, and a Philadelphia homicide list recorded the assault date as October 17 and the death date as October 18.
According to the available
reporting, Barnette was brought to Einstein Hospital by private vehicle shortly before 11:25 p.m. with gunshot wounds to his arm and torso. The violence was believed to have happened on or near the block where he lived, turning an ordinary night in the neighborhood into a deadly robbery investigation. Despite efforts to get him medical care, Barnette died at 12:13 a.m.
Police identified robbery as the suspected motive, but the public reports located did not name a suspect or describe a specific suspect vehicle, weapon recovery, or surveillance evidence. No publicly available source found for this synopsis reported an arrest, criminal charges, trial, plea, or conviction tied to Barnette's killing.
After his death, Barnette's obituary appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer through Legacy, listing funeral services at New Life Church of God on Rising Sun Avenue and burial at Chelten Hills Cemetery. The brief memorial notices and guest-book messages show that his death left behind family and friends still grieving years later, while the public record of the case remains sparse and centered on a late-night shooting, a robbery motive, and no identified offender in the sources reviewed.
