Darien Lawto Newsome, 25, was shot and killed in Philadelphia on November 24, 2014. Police were called at about 7:24 a.m. to the 5000 block of Sheldon Street, where officers found him lying in the street, shot and unresponsive. Philadelphia Fire Department medics pronounced him dead at the scene.

The case remains listed publicly as an open, unsolved homicide with no arrest or publicly named suspect. His obituary was published in The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, with services at Provision of Grace Full Gospel and burial at Mt. Lawn Cemetery.

Anyone who knew Darien or has information about what happened on Sheldon Street that morning is asked to contact investigators.