Mother asks for public's help in finding son's killer

Saturday, September 26, 2020
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A mother makes a plea to find her son's killer.

"He was my only son, my only son," Alice Branch said.
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This August Branch will mark an anniversary that she dreads.

"I can't believe it, that's why I'm here," she said.

Just before 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, August 21, 2016, police were called to the 4100 block of Broad Street in Philadelphia's Tioga section.

That's where they found 36-year-old Gordon Branch with blunt force trauma wounds to his head.



He was pronounced dead at the hospital.

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"I know somebody out there knows something about what happened to my son," Branch said.

The City of Philadelphia is offering up to $20,000 in reward money for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible.

All you have to do is call the Citizens Crime Commission at 215-546-TIPS.

All calls will remain anonymous.



"They just need to come out and be real about it somebody, I'm a mother, why would you let me suffer and you know something about what happened to my son," Branch said.
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