Officials, investigators, and stunned residents of a Southwest Philadelphia neighborhood that has experienced far more than its share of violence were left to spend one of Philadelphia’s signature celebratory weekends making sense of one of the deadliest mass shootings in the city’s history.
After five people, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed Monday night, and a 2-year-old and 13-year-old were seriously wounded in a shooting spree that covered several blocks in Kingsessing, a “frustrated and outraged” Mayor Jim Kenney said the nation needs to find out “how to get guns out of dangerous people’s hands.”
Rather than savoring the Independence Day holiday, shocked neighbors feared what might happen next.
