{"id":309916,"date":"2026-10-19T15:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T15:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309916\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T15:50:08","slug":"police-offer-5000-reward-for-help-in-2019-case-of-man-who-was-fatally-shot-while-waiting-for-help-with-flat-tire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309916\/","title":{"rendered":"Police offer $5,000 reward for help in 2019 case of man who was fatally shot while waiting for help with flat tire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania State Police said it&#8217;s offering a $5,000 reward for answers to solve a seven-year-old cold case involving a man who was fatally shot while waiting for help to fix his car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 18, 2019, officers were called to Exit 4 of Interstate-95 near Chester Township in Delaware County. Investigators found a man with a gunshot wound to the head lying in a grassy median separating the highway from the exit to the Commodore Barry Bridge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/philly-woman-arrested-uber-eats-robot-protest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A retired Penn professor has been blocking Uber Eats robots for months. This week, she got arrested for it<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The man, later identified as Naython Brown, 33, had been traveling from Philadelphia to Chester County in a white Chevrolet Monte Carlo. He stopped on the side of the highway because of a flat tire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"richtext-image full-width\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Naython_Brown_Reward_police.width-704.jpg\" width=\"435\" height=\"383\" alt=\"Naython Brown Reward police.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"richtext-image full-width\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Naython_Brown_Reward_police.width-704.jpg\" width=\"435\" height=\"383\" alt=\"Naython Brown Reward police.jpg\"\/>Provided Image\/Pennsylvania State Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-image-caption\">Naython Brown was killed while he waited for assistance fixing a flat tire on his Chevrolet Monte Carlo, pictured above.<\/p>\n<p>Following the seven-year anniversary of Brown&#8217;s death, Pennsylvania State Police said it is offering the reward for any information that helps solve the case. Officials said to contact the Philadelphia Criminal Investigation Unit at 215-452-5216, the toll-free tips line at\u00a01-800-472-8477 or submit information\u00a0<a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.p3tips.com\/tipform.aspx?ID=107\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police said it&#8217;s offering a $5,000 reward for answers to solve a seven-year-old cold case involving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32460,126849,212,23844,693,69,71,70,206],"class_list":["post-309916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-cold-cases","tag-commodore-barry-bridge","tag-delaware-county","tag-homicides","tag-investigations","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309916","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=309916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}