Crime & Safety
13 Shot, 2 Killed As Violent Weekend In Philadelphia Hits Teens Hard: "It Should Not Have To Be This Way"
"It should not have to be this way in our city," Mayor Cherelle Parker said. "People should not have to live this way."
April 1, 2025
Warm weather is not something Philadelphia's Chief Public Safety Director looks forward to.
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"I look at my app, I see what's the weather on Friday? Warm and sunny. Hate it," Adam Geer said at City Hall Monday afternoon. "Because I know that the reality of it is some young folks are going to come out and might get into some stuff."
It's something that happened across the city this weekend. According to police, their officers responded to seven shooting incidents between Friday and Sunday. In those incidents, two people were killed and 13 people were shot, seven of them juveniles.
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