PHILADELPHIA - Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and other state and local leaders will meet in Philadelphia on Friday to discuss the explosion of gun violence that has plagued the city for more than a year.Attorney General Josh Shapiro and Democratic Senator Anthony H.
Williams will join Wolf on his trip to Philadelphia, according to a press release. The trio, along with other elected officials, will hold a news conference at the YMCA in West Philadelphia around 2 p.m.
immediately following the meeting.Philadelphia to date has experience 154 homicides since the start of 2021, which represents a 31% rise from April of last year.