PHILADELPHIA - For the second time this month, activists gathered in front of Sharon Hill’s Borough Hall to demand the release of more information on the police killing of an 8-year-old last August.Authorities say in late August, Fanta Bility and her family were leaving the Academy Park High School football field among a crowd of fans when a shooting between two young men erupted.
Bullets from that shooting came in the direction of three Sharon Hill Police officers who were monitoring the crowd. The officers returned fire, shooting toward a car they believed was involved in the initial gunfire, striking the car and members of the crowd.
Bility was the only one fatally struck as by the officer's bullets, according to officials.Investigators later determined that the bullets fired towards the officers originated from an argument between 16-year-old Angelo "A.J." Ford and Hasein Strand, 19.
Stollsteimer's office originally levied first-degree murder charges against both Ford and Strand, but those charges were later withdrawn. RELATED COVERAGEThe three officers were charged in January with manslaughter and reckless endangerment in the deadly shooting.