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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
National
Ellie Rushing

‘He was just a baby’: The family of a 13-year-old who was fatally shot remember him as a loving, protective boy

PHILADELPHIA — It was 6:36 p.m. Monday when Jasmine Wilcox spoke on the phone with her 13-year-old son, Jeremiah, for what she did not know would be the last time.

“Jeremiah, you OK?” she asked.

“Yes, Mom, I’m outside talking to my friends,” Wilcox recalled her son saying. “And I said, ‘OK it’s a school night. Be home by 8.”

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