Davonte Coleman, an 18-year-old Black male from Philadelphia, was killed on May 23, 2011, in a shooting on the 100 block of West Tiber Street. Online homicide records list the same date for both the assault and his death, indicating that the violence that took his life unfolded and ended in the same day. The available public information is brief, but it places Davonte among the city’s 2011 homicide victims, a young man whose life ended on a North Philadelphia block before he had fully stepped
into adulthood.
The case appears to have received little public coverage beyond homicide listings and online case summaries. Those sources identify him as Davonte Coleman rather than Davonte Cole, and because that name appears in the online homicide list, Coleman is the name supported by the sources found. The location listed, 100 West Tiber Street, points to a residential stretch of the city where the shooting became part of a much larger year of violence in Philadelphia.
No publicly available online source located during review identified a named suspect, arrest, prosecution, trial, conviction, or sentencing connected to Davonte Coleman’s death. The case is presented in available summaries as an unsolved homicide, with no confirmed arrest information found in public online records. What remains publicly visible is a narrow record: his name, his age, the date he died, and the block where he was found or fatally wounded.
Davonte’s story, as preserved online, is therefore one marked by absence as much as by fact. There is no detailed public account describing what led up to the shooting, who was with him, whether police developed persons of interest, or what evidence investigators recovered. The public record leaves his death suspended in a familiar but painful pattern: a young Philadelphia resident killed by gunfire, remembered in lists and databases, while the people responsible have not been publicly identified.
