A four-year-old was wounded by gunfire following an altercation at a barbershop in the city’s Olney section –– the latest of nearly 150 minors shot in Philadelphia this year.
Police say the boy was struck once in the right shoulder. Medics took the boy to nearby Einstein Medical Center, and he was then transferred to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and placed in stable condition.Inspector John Walker, head of the Philadelphia Police Department’s nonfatal shooting unit, said police believe it was unlikely that the child was a target — and that the shooter had endangered others in the crowded barbershop.
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Maybe the Editorial Board can write more puff pieces and endorse more failed politicians from the political party that has run the city to the ground for over half a century.
The violence will end once the residents of Philadelphia decide that they’ve had enough, and they’re still not there yet.
Yet tomorrow, his harrowing experience will be forgotten. Only if we had newspaper writers who can follow up and ask tough questions of the da and mayor