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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Lifestyle
Rodrigo Torrejón

A mother and daughter, injured by the same bullet, struggle to heal

PHILADELPHIA — Shaina Moore was pushing her daughter in a stroller as she walked her 8-year-old son home from school on a winter afternoon when shots rang out behind them and a bullet struck her leg.

"Run!" she yelled to her son, urging him to race ahead, away from the gunfire, as she struggled to steady the stroller and limped along the sidewalk, blood rushing down her leg.

Just feet away, on the corner of North 31st and Norris Streets in Philadelphia's Strawberry Mansion neighborhood, five teens were shot in a chaotic burst of gunfire that unfolded within seconds.

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