In the early morning hours of December 16, 2022, on the 100 block of North 25th Street in East Camden, New Jersey, Clint Leavy, a 65-year-old male from Camden, was struck by gunfire that would prove fatal. Around 3:20 a.m., the city’s ShotSpotter system registered multiple shots, summoning Camden County police officers to the quiet residential block. When they arrived, they found Leavy lying wounded from gunshot injuries.
He was rushed to Cooper University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead roughly ten minutes later, at about 3:30 a.m., his name later released by the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office as the victim of the night’s violence.
Leavy was not alone when the shooting erupted. Beside him, officers discovered a 54-year-old woman, also from Camden, suffering from severe gunshot wounds. Like Leavy, she was transported to Cooper University Hospital, where she was listed in critical condition in the hours that followed. The incident transformed a short stretch of North 25th Street into an active crime scene: East Camden residents awoke to patrol cars, crime-scene tape, and detectives methodically documenting evidence in the roadway and on nearby sidewalks as daybreak approached. Local and regional outlets would later describe the event as a double shooting that left one person dead and another fighting for her life, underscoring how quickly a single burst of gunfire had upended multiple lives.
From the earliest public statements, the authorities treated Leavy’s death as a homicide and emphasized that the investigation was active and ongoing. The Camden County Prosecutor’s Office and Camden County Police Department jointly appealed for the public’s help, asking anyone with information to contact the Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit or the Camden County Police Department, or to use the CAMDEN.TIPS anonymous reporting portal. News releases and subsequent coverage repeated those pleas in the days after the shooting, but did not name any suspect or person of interest, nor did they describe a motive for the attack. As months passed, community-focused crime and memorial sites continued to list the case, noting his death by gunfire on December 16, 2022, and inviting readers to share information or memories, a sign that no public announcement of an arrest or identified suspect had followed the initial reports.
Online memorials and case-tracking pages gradually became one of the few visible traces of Leavy’s story. A national gun violence memorial site recorded his name, age, date, and place of death, with dozens of virtual candles lit in his memory, while CrimeSolversCentral documented the basic facts of the shooting and encouraged visitors to submit tips or corrections and to follow the case for updates. Forum posts tied to that case page, written through 2023 and 2024, spoke of ongoing concern, the “lack of any leads,” and an unease in the neighborhood after the killing—reflections that, together with the absence of later news coverage announcing charges, point to a homicide that remained unsolved years after that cold December morning.
