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Philadelphia Police opened an internal investigation into how and why officers were dispatched to the wrong location on July 2 after a woman called 911 to report hearing gunfire at a house in Kingsessing.
According to authorities, this mistake occurred nearly two days before the same gunman returned to the same street and killed four more people and injured several others. The initial shooting left 31-year-old Joseph Wamah Jr. dead inside his home. He was effectively unnoticed by authorities for 44 hours.
Police radio recordings reviewed by The Inquirer provide some clues about what happened the night of the 911 call. The implications of the mishandled response are now at the heart of an investigation into a crime that rocked the city and attracted national attention.“While it may have given us an investigative lead,” Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said, “the likelihood of … cutting off what happened later on, we just don’t know.
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