Gun Crisis Philadelphia

Emergency room makes compelling classroom for students seeking solutions to gun violence Posted: 27 Mar 2013 11:00 AM PDT Temple University Hospital treats more than 500 gunshot patients each year in Philadelphia, where shootings are the leading cause of death for African American children. Swarthmore College students visited Temple’s emergency room — kept unusually warm in expectation of patients who may be suffering blood loss — on Tuesday with the hospital’s Trauma Outreach Coordinator Scott Charles, who also leads their Cradle to Grave program. According to cradletograveprogram.com: Aimed at the at-risk youth who stand the greatest chance of becoming either the perpetrators or victims of violence, this free two-hour program brings teens into our hospital trauma bays and uses real-life (and death) scenarios to educate them about the physical and emotional realities of gun violence. During their experience, young people are allowed to step into the shoes of a real life teenager, Lamont Adams, and follow his journey from his birth in North Philadelphia to the events that would ultimately claim his life just 16 short years later. Cradle to Grave has recently been covered in the New York Times and on CNN. The students are participating in the Peace Studies and Action Course which has been collaborating with the Gun Crisis Reporting Project this semester. Next week, Swarthmore is hosting “GunCrisis.Org: Seeking Solutions to Gun Violence in Philadelphia with Digital Journalism.” Are you ready to become part of the solution? Several gun violence prevention events are scheduled in Philadelphia this week.

Third man found shot to death in Philadelphia in less than 24 hours Posted: 26 Mar 2013 05:28 PM PDT Police gather evidence at the crime scene as women embrace after a man was shot to death Tuesday afternoon in the Logan section of Philadelphia. Photographs for the Gun Crisis Reporting Project by Joseph Kaczmarek. According to police, a 32-year-old man was shot once in his chest on Duncannon Avenue near 15th Street at around 1:30 p.m. The victim was pronounced dead at Einstein Medical Center a short time later. Police said that the incident started when two men began arguing and then exchanged gunfire, according to a report form CBS3. Men and women embraced on the edge of the crime scene. The victim became the third man shot to death in Philadelphia in less than 24 hours, after incidents in the Harrowgate and Fairhill sections of the city. A 25-year-old man was shot to death on the 3000 block of North 4th Street in the Fairhill section of Philadelphia late Monday afternoon. The body of another man was found lying in a pool of blood in the 3400 block of North J Street in the Harrowgate section of Philadelphia late Monday night. View Three men shot to death in 24 hours in Philadelphia in a larger map Ready to become part of the solution? Several gun violence prevention events are scheduled in Philadelphia this week.