Crime Fighters: Who killed Noel Pena?

Now, his niece is hoping somebody will come ahead to seek out who killed her uncle.

Chante Rivas says her uncle, Noel Pena, was a very good man who had fallen on exhausting instances.

She provides her uncle was just lately launched from jail and was homeless.

On Wednesday, January 12, at about 7:05 a.m., Pena was on the nook the place he slept alongside the 2800 block of North Fairhill Road in North Philadelphia.

That is when Rivas stated Pena bought into an argument with different people.

“They have been preventing…and within the midst of the battle, he bought hit.

They hit him with a steel pole,” she stated.

Police discovered Pena propped up on a stoop with a blanket over his head. He was pronounced useless on the scene.

“I really feel like he might need identified them as a result of after we spoke to the medical expert and just like the funeral individuals and stuff like that, they are saying whoever did this to him had lots of animosity behind it,” she stated.

The Metropolis of Philadelphia is providing as much as a $20,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the individual accountable.

All you must do is name the Residents Crime Fee at 215-546-TIPS.

All calls will stay nameless.

“I simply need whoever to have the ability to like communicate out and never be afraid to talk out as a result of we’ve not heard something,” she stated.