PHILADELPHIA - With more than 500 people shot this year, activist groups are calling on the City of Philadelphia to invest $100 million in violence prevention.

Police were on the 2500 block of Bancroft Street in North Philly Friday afternoon after someone shot a 50-year-old woman several times.

She died on the scene. Police say the suspect in a newer model burgundy Chevy Impala got away. "If you know someone lost to gun violence call out their name," said Movita Johnson-Harrell at a rally just hours before outside City Hall. "We have an emergency on our hands and it can't wait any longer.

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Philadelphia police officer faces perjury, falsification charges, DA says

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Activist groups call on Philadelphia to invest $100M in violence prevention

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