PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — This year marks 17 years since Matt Novak was shot and killed.
“It hasn’t gotten easier. You learn to adept, and basically live with what happened. You move forward as best you can,” says Novak’s father, Matt Novak.
It happened on Sunday, September 28th, 2008.
The 24-year-old Novak, along with two friends, were returning home from the Puerto Rican Day Parade when their car broke down at 6th and Green streets in Northern Liberties.
In an effort to get the car running again, Novak accepted what he thought was help from passersby.
“When those guys pulled over, the one bit of information we got from one of his friends was that Matt, last thing Matt says is I’m going to get jumper cables. Why he got in their car, I don’t know,” says Novak.
Novak would be shot less than a mile away at 13th Street and Fairmount Avenue.
He later died at the hospital.
“As time goes by, people’s hearts soften a bit and maybe they want to say something now,” Novak says.
Novak’s father is hoping someone remembers seeing something that fateful night.
“The reward is still out there. 45k if anybody else out there that knows anything about this.”
As Mr. Novak says, there is a $45,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in this case.
All calls will remain anonymous.
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