Daniel Irizarry, a 24-year-old Hispanic/Latino male from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was killed on January 6, 2011, in North Philadelphia. Police identified him the next morning after he was found slain outside his home on Hazzard Street near American Street. The shooting happened in the 200 block of West Hazzard Street, a tight residential stretch in the city’s Fairhill/North Philadelphia area.
According to contemporaneous reporting, Daniel was shot in the face and torso.
The details available publicly are brief, but they describe a sudden, violent attack close to where he lived. There is no indication in the available online reporting that he was taken far from the scene or that the incident unfolded over a long period of time; instead, the public record presents it as a fatal shooting outside his home, with police later confirming his identity.
His death was recorded among Philadelphia’s early 2011 homicides, with both the assault date and date of death listed as January 6, 2011. The homicide listings place him as one of the first victims of that year, following killings on January 1 and January 3 and coming just before another homicide recorded on January 7. In that context, Daniel’s death became part of a violent opening stretch to the year in Philadelphia, where multiple families were left waiting for answers in separate cases within days of each other.
Publicly available online sources do not identify a suspect or suspects in Daniel Irizarry’s killing. I found no reliable online record showing that an arrest was made, that anyone was charged, or that the case led to a trial or conviction. The available sources also do not provide a motive, a description of a shooter, or details about whether police recovered evidence at the scene. Based on the online information available, the case appears to have remained publicly unresolved, with Daniel remembered primarily through homicide records and the short news report identifying him after his death.
