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Neighbors say the 1800 block of Barbara Street is normally a quiet South Philly strip. But that wasn’t the case when a police sting operation erupted into gunfire that ended with a 12-year-old shot in the back.
Police say the boy, identified as Thomas Siderio, had a semi-automatic handgun in his hand as he ran from police and said the fact that he was fleeing “doesn’t mean he wasn’t continuing to be a threat to the officers,” according to Philadelphia Police Deputy Commissioner Benjamin Naish. An officer was injured in the eye after a bullet that was fired toward police shattered car glass. The cops who fired the fatal shot have been placed on administrative leave.
In the case of Thomas, a seventh grader at George W. Sharswood Elementary, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said in a statement that “the life of a young man was cut tragically short, and we should all be questioning how we as a society have failed him and so many other young people like him.”🧠 Philly Trivia Time 🧠
Gwynedd-Mercy University received one heck of a return on investment for land it purchased in 2018 for $12.1 million. This week, the school sold the same plot it purchased less than five years ago. Today’s question: How much did Gwynedd Mercy sell for? Take a guess and
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