Perry Braxton, a 40-year-old Black male from Philadelphia, was killed on March 27, 2011, in the 5900 block of Elmwood Avenue in Philadelphia. The available online information places both the assault and his death on the same day, indicating that whatever unfolded on Elmwood Avenue turned fatal quickly. Online reporting connected to his case described him as having been shot multiple times, and his death was later included among Philadelphia’s 2011 homicide victims.
The public details
that could be located are sparse, leaving the case with the feel of a brief entry in the city’s long record of gun violence rather than a fully told story. Braxton’s name appears alongside other victims from late March 2011, marking a violent stretch in Philadelphia in which multiple people were killed within days of one another. His case is tied to Elmwood Avenue, a specific block where police recorded the homicide, but the available sources do not describe the circumstances leading up to the shooting, whether he was targeted, whether there was an argument, or whether anyone witnessed the attack.
No online source located identified a suspect or suspects in Perry Braxton’s killing. The available sources also did not report any arrests, charges, trial, conviction, or sentencing connected to his death. Based on the information available online, the case appears to have remained without publicly reported accountability, with no named person tied to the homicide in the sources found.
