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Shooting. The first victim, Joseph Wamah Jr., was killed around 12.30 a.m. EDT on July 2, 2023. [1][2] The subsequent victims were killed around 8:30 p.m. on July 3, 2023. [3] The shooter, wearing body armor and armed with an AR-15–style rifle and a pistol, opened fire in southwest Kingsessing. [4] He shot randomly at people and occupied cars ...
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney on Sunday decried the mass shooting that happened hours earlier in his city in which three people were killed and another 11 were injured. Kenney called the events of ...
The 1985 MOVE bombing, locally known by its date, May 13, 1985, [2] was an airstrike and destruction of residential homes in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, by the Philadelphia Police Department during an armed standoff with MOVE, a black liberation organization. As Philadelphia police attempted to ...
The Philadelphia Police Department (PPD, Philly PD, or Philly Police) is the police agency responsible for law enforcement and investigations within the County and City of Philadelphia. The PPD is one of the oldest municipal police agencies, [3] fourth-largest police force [4] and sixth-largest non-federal law enforcement agency in the United ...
The man accused in the fatal shooting spree in Philadelphia that left five people dead and four others wounded Monday night left a will at his house, and according to a roommate had acted agitated ...
July 5, 2022 at 1:16 PM. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney on Monday said he stresses so much about big events coming to the city, particularly in the wake of a nationwide spike in gun violence, that ...
Wilson Goode. Woodrow Wilson Goode Sr. (born August 19, 1938) is a former Mayor of Philadelphia and the first African American to hold that office. He served from 1984 to 1992, a period which included the controversial MOVE police action and house bombing in 1985. Goode was also a community activist, chair of the state Public Utility Commission ...
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (D) said he was “horrified” by the reports of a fatal shooting that took place on a playground Friday and said the city is offering a reward for information that ...