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Philadelphia Unveils The Tiffany Fletcher Rec Center, Named After Slain Worker

Wednesday, the city unveiled a new name for the Mill Creek Recreation Center - it will now be known as the Tiffany Fletcher Rec Center.

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June 15, 2023

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- As Philadelphia opened the first of its public pools for the summer, the day was not without a solemn reminder of a beloved rec center employee killed last fall.

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Wednesday, the city unveiled a new name for the Mill Creek Recreation Center - it will now be known as the Tiffany Fletcher Rec Center.

Fletcher, 41, was shot and killed Sept. 9, 2022, as a 14-year-old boy exchanged gunshots with a group of three others on opposite corners of 47th and Brown Streets.

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