Bennie Bland was a 21-year-old Black male whose life ended on October 18, 2009, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Online homicide records list his death on the same date as the assault and place the incident on the 5400 block of Belmar Street, a residential stretch in the Kingsessing area of Southwest Philadelphia. The available records do not give a full account of what Bennie was doing in the moments before the shooting, but they mark his death as one of Philadelphia's 2009 homicides and
preserve the basic outline of a young man killed suddenly in the city.
The public information available online is sparse. Bennie's name appears in a 2009 Philadelphia homicide victim list with his age, the date of assault, the date of death, and the block where he was found. The case falls among a long sequence of killings recorded that year, with Bennie listed between other October homicide victims, underscoring how quickly one case followed another during that period in the city.
No reliable online source located during review provided a named suspect, arrest, charging document, trial outcome, conviction, or sentencing information specifically tied to Bennie Bland's homicide. Based on the available online records, there is no public indication that anyone was arrested or prosecuted for his death.
