Posted: 02 Mar 2013 05:44 AM PST
Family members walk awayfrom the crime scene after a 54-year-old man was shot to death in front of his
home in West Philadelphia Wednesday night. Photograph by Joseph Kaczmarek
for the Gun Crisis Reporting Project.
double shooting and homicide near a performer’s tour bus on Columbus Boulevard
late Thursday night capped an unusually violent seven-day period during which
shooters killed five people and wounded at least 21 more, two of them critically.
A 12-year-old was wounded by stray gunfire during an incident in Olney,
a grandmother and child ducked bullets in their North Philadelphia home,
and gunfire shattered the windows of a SEPTA bus carrying 11 passengers
through West Philadelphia.
Loved ones grieved openly when a
community leader was killed in front of his West Philadelphia home
Wednesday night. Another man was wounded in Kensington at about
the same time.Two more people were killed and four were wounded
across Philadelphia in separate incidents on Tuesday.
A report in the South Philly Review on Thursday confirmed that
four people were wounded in an incident we reported on
South Columbus Boulevard early Monday morning.
Altogether, eight shooting incidents were reported over last weekend.
Finally, Twitter users were reporting live when police shot and
wounded a suspect at the end of a car chase in Center City Thursday night.
A Philadelphia Police investigator photographs evidence at the scene
of a double shooting and homicide on Columbus Boulevard Thursday night.
Photograph by Tom Kelly IV for the Gun Crisis Reporting Project.
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