Raymond Collazo, 49, a Hispanic/Latino male, was killed in Philadelphia on October 28, 2008. Public homicide listings place him on the 4900 block of North Camac Street, in a North Philadelphia neighborhood where, on that day, his name became part of the city’s 2008 homicide record. The available online information does not describe the moments leading up to the violence, who found him, or the exact injuries that caused his death, but the case is recorded as a murder rather than an accidental or natural death.
The public record of Raymond’s death is brief, leaving the picture of his final hours painfully incomplete. What can be confirmed from available online sources is that the assault and death were both recorded on October 28, 2008, suggesting that whatever happened on North Camac Street turned fatal that same day. His case appears among hundreds of Philadelphia homicide victims from that year, a period when the city was still struggling with a high number of violent deaths.
Online case records reviewed do not identify a named suspect or suspects in Raymond Collazo’s killing. The case is listed as open with no arrest, and no publicly available source located reported charges, a trial, a conviction, or a motive. There is also no clear public reporting describing whether investigators believed the killing involved a robbery, an argument, a targeted attack, or some other circumstance.
As it stands, Raymond Collazo’s death remains a sparse but unresolved entry in Philadelphia’s homicide history: a man killed on North Camac Street, his life reduced in public records to a date, an age, a location, and an open case. The available sources do not show that anyone has ever been held accountable for his murder.
