Fatal shooting brings grief to neighborhood in Kingsessing
Emotions wash over a crowd of onlookers as police remove the the body of a man who had been shot and killed Friday afternoon on the 5500 block of Regent Street in the Kingsessing section of Southwest Philadelphia. Photographs for theGun Crisis Reporting Project by Joseph Kaczmarek.
Philadelphia Fire Department medics pronounced the man dead on the scene shortly after noon while neighbors gathered in nearby doorways.
A police spokeswoman said that the victim had been shot several times in the upper torso and head, according tophilly.com. According to CBS3, officials said no weapon was recovered and no arrests had been made.
A woman ran toward police as they carried the body bag from the front porch of a home on the block, and several people tried to comfort her as she continued to pray out load.
Three more men survived separate shooting incidents across Philadlephia on Friday, and were reported in stable condition at area hospitals:
A 24-year-old man was shot in the leg on the 5300 block of Paschall Avenue in Southwest Philadelphia later Friday afternoon.
Medics rushed a 20-year-old man to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after he was shot in the area of 58th and Market Streets iN West Philadelphia at about 7:30 p.m.
A 19-year-old man was rushed to Einstein Medical Center after he was shot twice during a home invasion on West Raymond Street in Feltonville shortly before midnight.
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Good Friday vigil calls for end to gun violence ‘for the love of our children’
Hundreds of people gathered outside Benjamin Franklin High School in the Spring Garden section of Philadelphia for the fifth annual Good Friday Vigil lead byHeeding God’s Call, a faith-based movement to prevent gun violence. Photographs for the Gun Crisis Reporting Project by Joseph Kaczmarek.
Movita Johnson Harrell and her husband Yancy lost their son Charles Andre Johnson, 18, after he was fatally shot on January 13, 2011 at Washington Lane and Musgrave Street in the East Germantown section of Philadelphia.
The march and vigil followed a gathering at St. Paul’s Baptist Church at 10th and Wallace Streets.
The ecumenical service included prayer, music, a remembrance of gun violence victims, and a call to end gun violence, “for the love of our children.”
Mayors Against Illegal Guns participants hold event in Norristown on Thursday
A demonstrator waves an inverted American flag, with the original 13-star design, during a press conference led by Mayors Against Illegal Guns outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, PA, on Thursday. Photographs byTom Kelly for the Gun Crisis Reporting Project.
More than 100 events were planned across the country as part of the National Day to Demand Action to end gun violence.
Waving an inverted flag is a traditional signal of distress.
More reports:
pottsmerc.com: Montco authorities rally to end gun violence on Day to Demand Actionthereporteronline.com: National Day to Demand Action comes to local level in Norristownphillyburbs.com: Supporters, opponents of gun control rally in Montcotimesherald.com: Norristown to participate in National Day to Demand Action
pottsmerc.com: Montco authorities rally to end gun violence on Day to Demand Actionthereporteronline.com: National Day to Demand Action comes to local level in Norristownphillyburbs.com: Supporters, opponents of gun control rally in Montcotimesherald.com: Norristown to participate in National Day to Demand Action
Double shooting leaves man critically wounded; woman in stable condition late Thursday night in South Philadelphia
A police officer looks over the crime scene after a man and a woman were shot on McKean Street near 7th Street in South Philadelphia late Thursday night. Photographs for the Gun Crisis Reporting Project by Joseph Kaczmarek.
According to police, patrol officers found the victims after hearing gunshots in the area at about 11:30 p.m. The man had been shot several times in the head and the woman had been shot once in the torso. Both victims are 22 years old and were rushed by police to Jefferson University Hospital.
Philadlephia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said that investigators had located eight 10 mm shell casings on the street. Police are reviewing surveillance cameras in the area, according to a report at 6ABC.
Shooter leaves man critically wounded on North Philadelphia pedestrian bridge Thursday afternoon
Crime Scene Unit investigators gather evidence after a 40-year-old man was critically wounded in a shooting in North Philadelphia Thursday afternoon. Photographs for the Gun Crisis Reporting Project by Joseph Kaczmarek.
Police said that the man was found at about 4 p.m. on a pedestrian bridge connecting West Westmoreland Street, over an abandoned rail line between 3rd and 4th Streets.
Police rushed the victim, who had suffered gunshot wounds to the head and chest, to Temple University Hospital.
A group of children watched the investigation from the edge of the crime scene.
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