Three former Pennsylvania police officers pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment in the death of an 8-year-old girl in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania.
A group of masked gunmen is wanted after they unleashed a hail of bullets on a neighborhood in Philadelphia last week, critically injuring one victim, police said. Credit: Philadelphia Police Departmentpolice officers pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment in connection to the death of an 8-year-old girl who was killed after the officers fired shots into a populated area in August 2021.
The officers pleaded guilty to 10 counts of reckless endangerment as part of a deal with prosecutors, supported by the Bility family.The family of Bility spoke at a press conference on Thursday about the plea deal. He said it was impossible to describe in words what Fanta’s mother and siblings witnessed when she was shot.On Aug. 27, Fanta and her family were leaving a high school football game when two people engaged in a shooting in a crowd of people.
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