Larnell Butler, a 24-year-old Black male from Philadelphia, was listed among the city’s 2009 homicide victims after an assault and death recorded on July 2, 2009, with the location noted as the 6600 block of Lebanon Street. The available online homicide listing places his death in West Philadelphia and records the case in the same stark manner as many other killings from that year: a date, a name, an age, and the block where he was found.
The public online information available about Butler’s death is limited. The listing does not describe the circumstances that led to the assault, whether he was shot or killed by another method, or what investigators believed happened before he was found. What remains in the public record is the outline of a young man’s life ending suddenly on a summer day in Philadelphia, amid a year in which the city recorded hundreds of homicide victims.
I did not locate any non-excluded online source identifying a suspect, arrest, criminal charges, trial, conviction, or sentence connected to Larnell Butler’s death. Based on the publicly accessible sources found, there are no confirmed details available about anyone being held criminally responsible, and no sentencing or punishment information appears in the online record I reviewed.
