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Five people, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed in a mass shooting on Monday

Josephine Wamah says she is waiting for her twin brother Joseph Jr to wake up and tell her Monday night’s mass shooting was an elaborate prank

A 40-year-old accused of killing a man in a house and then gunning down four others “seemingly at random” on the streets of a southwest Philadelphia neighborhood before surrendering to police officers has been arraigned on murder and other charges

Five people going about their lives on the evening before July 4 were killed by a 40-year-old shooter in a random attack. Here’s what we know about the victims. Rachel Sharp reports

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.

Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner named the 40-year-old local man as the shooter who brought chaos and fear to the neighbourhood during the Fourth of July

On a day when Philadelphians would normally be celebrating, a corner of the city was quiet.

Ralph Moralis, 59, was one of the five victims killed on the eve of July 4 when a shooter dressed in a ski mask and bullet-proof vest stalked the streets of the Kingsessing neighbourhood gunning down victims

Kingsessing shooting suspect was charged with five counts of murder during a preliminary arraignment