The person accused of shooting seven people in Philadelphia on Monday night, killing five of them, was charged with murder Wednesday. Here's what you need to know.
that it was a “random, premeditated deliberate killing” and that the suspect didn’t seem to have connections to any of the victims.
Police responding to reports of a shooting Monday evening found multiple people wounded and then heard more gunshots. Officers chased the shooter as the shots continued, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said at a news conference Monday night. Police found about 50 shell casings at the scene.Four men and one teenage boy were killed. They were identified by police as Daujan Brown, 15; Lashyd Merritt, 20; Dymir Stanton, 29; Joseph Wamah Jr., 31; and Ralph Moralis, 59.
The shooting caused grief and devastation in the predominantly Black neighborhood, while city leaders said the country must address gun violence. Moralis had planned to walk his daughter down the aisle at her weekend wedding, Tamika Veney, his former partner of 25 years,that she hoped the shooter would “rot in jail,” saying the victims’ families did not deserve what had happened.
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