Chon Kim was 62 years old, male, and Asian / Pacific Islander when his life ended in Philadelphia on April 20, 2008. Online homicide listings place his death among the city's 2008 murder victims, recording that he was assaulted and died on the same day. One public list identifies the location associated with the case as the 5400 block of North 5th Street, while other online case summaries connected to the same homicide have described him as being found on or near the 2200 block of Cecil B.
Moore Avenue. The available public information does not fully explain that discrepancy, but both accounts place his death in Philadelphia during a violent weekend in the city.
The records that are publicly visible give only the outline of what happened: Kim was killed on April 20, 2008, and his death was treated as a homicide. The lack of detail leaves much of the story in shadow. There is no widely available account describing what Kim was doing in the moments before he was attacked, whether he was targeted or encountered his killer by chance, or what evidence investigators recovered at the scene. His name appears in victim lists more than in narrative reporting, which suggests that his death received only limited public coverage beyond the immediate record of the homicide.
No reliable online source located for this synopsis identifies an arrest, named suspect, trial, conviction, or sentence in connection with Chon Kim's death. Publicly available information does not show that anyone has been charged, and there are no clear court records or police updates online tying a specific person to the killing. Based on the accessible online record, the case appears to have remained unresolved publicly, with no suspect details released in the sources found.
Kim's death came during a period when Philadelphia was dealing with heavy levels of lethal violence, and his case was one of several homicides recorded around that same weekend. In the public record, he is remembered mostly through a few stark details: his name, his age, the date he died, and the Philadelphia blocks connected to the investigation. What is missing is just as striking: no known motive, no public suspect description, and no reported arrest that would explain who killed him or why.
