PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Police say they are confident they will find the person or persons who shot and killed an 80-year-old woman in her Cobbs Creek home last week — and they say they may need help from the public to do it. Detectives are encouraging anyone with information about the murder to come forward.
Rose Goodman, considered a pillar of her neighborhood, was found in her bedroom in the front of her home on Broomall Street near 57th Street last Thursday. Detectives say someone broke in through a basement window, and shot her once in the chest.
“Ms. Goodman was a loving mother and the matriarch of her family,” said Lt. Hamilton Marshmond at a press briefing on Friday.
“Family members would talk to Ms. Goodman on a regular basis, so after a few hours of not hearing from her, they drew concern,” he said.
She was found dead on the bedroom floor around 10 p.m., and Marshmond says it doesn’t look like anything was taken. Police are still working out the exact timeline of the shooting, he said.
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Marshmond said the brutal murder is not something the community can or should accept.
“I want the coward who took Ms. Rose Goodman away from her family and friends to know: Your life will never be the same. You will never have a good night’s sleep. You will look over your shoulder constantly, because you will not know when the day will come when we will be outside your home,” he said.
“I do promise you, with the help of the community and the hard work and dedication of the members of the homicide unit, that day will come.”
Officials are still searching for surveillance video, and police encourage anyone with information about the murder to call Philadelphia’s homicide unit or the anonymous tip line at 215-686-TIPS. As with every unsolved homicide in the city, there’s a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.