PHILADELPHIA - Less than 24 hours after a triple shooting left a 6-year-old boy critically wounded, the School District of Philadelphia announced they are expanding their mentoring program.Mabel Whitaker, of Southwest Philadelphia, is still shaken hours after she witnessed the aftermath of a deadly triple shooting.
The youngest victim being a 6-year-old boy rushed to the hospital in critical condition."There’s no value for life. Living life how can you just take somebody’s life?" she said.The shooting happened around 7:15 p.m.
Wednesday in the area of 53rd street and Baltimore Avenue.A traumatizing scene unfolding the same day as the city unveiled a new anti-violence strategy, which includes more police officers in high crime areas and.