About Us. Honoring lives taken by homicide.
All too often in Philadelphia, the news is filled with bloody details from the latest homicide, and another one comes so quickly that the previous one falls off the radar. Because the media is often ill-equipped to dive deeper than the murder itself, much of the general public blames the victims or assumes they must have been criminals. The vast majority were not violent criminals, and regardless of their background, homicide victims are always people, with lives, families, dreams and struggles.
The Philadelphia Obituary Project was founded in 2016 with the intention of flipping the dynamic by putting the lives of homicide victims front and center. We shed light on the people – treating them as more than statistics – and the families that have lost loved ones to preventable tragedies.
Please help spread the word about this nonprofit effort by telling a neighbor, signing up for our newsletter, or sharing the website on your social media. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
If you have information about a homicide victim, please click here to send us an email. We appreciate your support, and we share your hope that we can make a difference about the violence that plagues this city.
For more, please watch this video from NBC 10 Philadelphia: