Raymond Butts, a 22-year-old Black male, was killed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 26, 2011. Online homicide listings place the incident at the 2400 block of Harlan Street, showing that he was assaulted and died the same day. The available public records do not provide a long account of the moments before his death, but they place his killing in North Philadelphia during a violent stretch of the city's 2011 homicide year, when multiple people were recorded as homicide victims on the
same date.
The surviving online information leaves the case with few public details. Raymond's name appears in Philadelphia homicide victim records with his date of death, age, and the block where he was found, but the available sources do not describe a motive, a confrontation, a weapon, or any relationship between him and a possible attacker. What remains publicly visible is the outline of a young man's life ending suddenly on Harlan Street, followed by a case that appears to have gone without a publicly reported arrest.
No suspect or suspects were identified in the online sources located. The case is listed as open with no arrest, and no public record found in the searched material shows that anyone was charged in connection with Raymond Butts' death. Because no arrest information was found, there are also no available details of a trial, conviction, plea, sentencing, or punishment tied to this homicide.
As reflected in the available online record, Raymond Butts' death remains publicly unresolved. His case appears to stand as one of Philadelphia's 2011 homicides in which the victim is named, the date and location are preserved, but the public record does not show that investigators ever announced an arrest or that a court imposed a sentence on anyone for the killing.
