Eric Harrison was a 20-year-old Black man living in Phoenix, Arizona, whose life ended in an unresolved burst of gunfire. On August 25, 2011, in the late summer heat, he was shot and killed at an apartment complex at 2433 West Campbell Avenue, a multifamily property in Phoenix's Alhambra area.
The complex, a cluster of modest buildings just off a busy corridor of the city, became the backdrop for a crime that has never been fully explained in public records.
What is known is stark and simple: Eric was struck by gunfire at that address and did not survive. The killing was classified as a murder committed with a firearm, and his name joined the long list of young victims whose lives were cut short without an immediate answer to who pulled the trigger or why.
Investigators with the Phoenix Police Department took the lead on the case, recording it as an unsolved homicide. In databases that compile killings across Arizona, Eric's entry is painfully bare: his age, the fact that he was male, his race, the method of his death, and the precise location of the crime scene. Under “suspect details,” the only name listed is “Unknown,” and there is no indication of an arrest, a person of interest, or any formal charges linked to his shooting. Public appeals have asked anyone who might know what happened at 2433 West Campbell that day to contact Phoenix detectives, underscoring that the investigation remains open but without a publicly identified suspect.
Eric's case is one among hundreds of unsolved homicides from across the state that have been gathered by victim-advocacy groups and law-enforcement-linked databases, each entry representing a family and community left without closure. In those compilations, more than 400 Arizona cases are listed, many from Phoenix and many involving young people killed by gunfire, each accompanied by the same quiet plea for information. Eric Harrison's name sits there among them: a reminder that, despite the passing years, no one has yet been held accountable for the shots that took his life on that August day in Phoenix.
