Ricardo Irizarry, a 20-year-old Hispanic/Latino male from Philadelphia, was killed on April 23, 2009, in a homicide recorded in the city’s 2009 murder victim list. His death was tied to the 7300 block of Bouvier Street, a residential stretch of Philadelphia where his name became one of more than three hundred lives lost to homicide that year.
The available public record is sparse, but the details that do appear are stark. Ricardo was listed as both assaulted and deceased on the same date, April 23, 2009, suggesting the attack that took his life was sudden and fatal. The listing places him at age 20, an age when a young man would ordinarily still be moving into adulthood, making his death part of a wider pattern of young lives cut short in Philadelphia’s violence during that period.
No publicly available online source I found identified a named suspect, arrest, charging document, trial, plea, or conviction connected to Ricardo Irizarry’s killing. The case information available online does not describe a motive, relationship between Ricardo and any possible attacker, or the circumstances immediately before the homicide. Based on the accessible records, his case remains one where the public trail ends with his name, his age, the date, and the block where he was found.
Philadelphia homicide listings from that era directed people with information to contact the Philadelphia Police Department Homicide Unit, including anonymous tips, and the city’s current unsolved murder resources continue to emphasize that information from the public can be critical in bringing cases to an arrest and conviction. In Ricardo’s case, the online record leaves behind a quiet but painful outline: a young Philadelphian killed on Bouvier Street, with no publicly documented accountability for the person or people responsible.
