Edward Baez, a 35-year-old male Hispanic/Latino, was recorded among Philadelphia’s 2008 homicide victims after being found in the 3100 block of Potter Street. Although the information provided with the request listed April 16, 2008 as the date of death, the online Philadelphia homicide list located for this case records both the assault date and death date as March 16, 2008. The same source identifies him by name and age and places the incident in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The available online record leaves only a narrow window into what happened. Baez’s death appears in the city’s homicide count as one of the killings that marked 2008 in Philadelphia, a year in which the list continued to grow neighborhood by neighborhood and block by block. His entry is brief but stark: a name, an age, a date, and the 3100 block of Potter Street, turning that location into the public marker of where his life ended.
No reliable, accessible online source located in this search provided a detailed narrative of the attack, the circumstances that led up to it, or the exact manner in which Baez was killed. I also did not find accessible source information confirming the names of any suspects, arrests, charges, trial proceedings, pleas, convictions, or sentencing connected to his homicide. The publicly available material I could verify therefore supports that Edward Baez was a Philadelphia homicide victim, but it does not establish who killed him or whether anyone was ever held criminally responsible.
