In the late summer of 2007, a 55-year-old Black/African American man named Sidney Anthony was found dead in a Philadelphia alley, the victim of a fatal gunshot wound to the head. The discovery was made on the afternoon of August 29, 2007, behind a Chinese restaurant on the 1200 block of North 16th Street in the city's Francisville neighborhood.
At the time of the incident, police had not identified any suspects or a motive for the shooting. The case was one of several homicides that occurred in Philadelphia on the same day, contributing to a grim statistic for the city's annual homicide rate.
Despite the passage of time, publicly available information and news reports do not indicate that any arrests have ever been made in connection with the murder of Sidney Anthony. The case appears to have gone cold, with no suspects publicly identified or charged in his death. His killing remains an unsolved chapter in the city's history of violent crime.
