{"id":309852,"date":"2026-10-19T13:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309852\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:42:08","slug":"5k-reward-offered-in-2019-delco-cold-case-murder-of-philly-man-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309852\/","title":{"rendered":"$5k reward offered in 2019 Delco cold case murder of Philly man \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the seven year anniversary of the slaying of 33-year-old Naython Brown, of Philadelphia, law enforcement officials are reminding members of the public that there is a $5,000 reward available for information that solves Brown&#8217;s murder. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning, officials with the Pennsylvania State Police shared details on the reward and Brown&#8217;s killing, that happened at about 9:28 p.m. on Oct. 19, 2019, along I-95 in Chester Township.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, at that time, troopers were called on the report of a deceased individual on a grassy median that separates I-95 from an exit for the Commodore Barry Bridge. <\/p>\n<p>Here, officials said, troopers found Brown after he had been shot in the head. <\/p>\n<p>An investigation at the scene showed Brown had experienced car trouble that evening while headed from Philadelphia to Chester and had pulled a white Chevrolet Monte Carlo to the side of the road after it became disabled due to a flat tire.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe Brown was shot in the head as he waited at the roadside for assistance with his vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>A $5,000 reward is being offered for information that solves this case. <\/p>\n<p>Police are asking anyone who may have information that can solve this case to contact the Pennsylvania State Police&#8217;s criminal investigation unit at 215-452-5216, the state police&#8217;s tip line at 1-800-472-8477 or via an online form available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.p3tips.com\/tipform.aspx?ID=107\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.p3tips.com\/tipform.aspx?ID=107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>State police officials said that all callers to the tip line could be eligible for the cash reward for providing information that leads to an arrest, the solving of a crime\/cold case or the location of a wanted person\/fugitive or missing person. <\/p>\n<p>All unsolved cases have a reward offered for information that solves the case and, police officials noted that this reward money is not paid by taxpayers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the seven year anniversary of the slaying of 33-year-old Naython Brown, of Philadelphia, law enforcement officials are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[212,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-309852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-delaware-county","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}