Elston Blakely

Elston Blakely, a 51-year-old Black male, was recorded among Philadelphia’s 2009 homicide victims after an assault and death dated September 2, 2009. The public homicide listing places the incident on the 1900 block of West Willard Street in Philadelphia, a residential stretch in North Philadelphia where his name appears in the city’s grim roll of lives lost that year.

The online records available for Blakely’s case are sparse. They identify him by name, list his age, give the date ...

Murders in Philadelphia