Man Convicted In Woman's Deadly 2021 Stabbing: Philadelphia Authorities

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office said a 22-year-old man has been convicted of murder in connection with a fatal 2021 stabbing.

Quader Moore, 22, was convicted of first-degree murder and possession of an instrument of crime.

The investigation into Moore began the morning of June 16, 2021.

That morning, police responded to a missing persons report at a rooming house on the 2600 block of N. 17th Street in North Philadelphia.

When officers arrived, they found the two cousins of a 25-year-old woman named Tianna Wells on the steps outside the home. They told the officers they had not heard from Wells in several days and that all calls to her number were going to voicemail.

The officers took the missing persons report and left. However, they were soon called back as the cousins were let into the rooming house and went to Tianna's locked second-floor apartment.

The cousins were met with a foul odor in the apartment, and when inside found the body of the woman, later identified as Wells, on the floor next to a bed

Wells was suffering from a four-inch deep knife wound to her neck. Detectives later learned Wells's phone was missing.

Homicide detectives later got video showing Wells coming home the evening of June 13, 2021, with a man. That man was later identified as Moore, authorities said.

Wells stopped responding to calls that night, and her phone went off network days later. However, the investigation showed Wells's phone was still in use, and was used to access her Instagram page to convert to a promotional account for Moore's rap alter ego, "yngp qua," the DA's office said.

An examination of Wells's Instagram records shows that it was her device that made this change and that this Instagram account — and Moore's personal Instagram account — used the same IP address in August 2021, consistent with both accounts being accessed by the Wells's cell phone, helping to link Moore to this incident, according to the DA's office.

Moore will be sentenced on Dec. 22.