The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office has announced charges on Wednesday, 7/20, related to the gunpoint rape on a SEPTA platform earlier this week. 20-year-old Namir Thomas is charged with indecent sexual intercourse, two counts of robbery, two counts of unlawful restraint, and firearms and related offenses. The attack happened early Monday morning, 7/18, at the Snyder station of the...

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Philadelphia Police are looking for a suspect wanted for raping a woman at gunpoint on a subway platform early Monday morning, 7/18. It happened around 4:30 a.m. at the Snyder station of the Broad Street Line on the 2100 block of S. Broad Street. The 40-year-old victim was at the station with her 46-year-old boyfriend when the suspect approached the pair. The woman was trying on some...

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A man has been arrested for beating his elderly mother to death inside her Roxborough home on Sunday, 7/17. 59-year-old Gary Johnson is charged with murder and possessing an instrument of crime. Police responded around 1 p.m. to the 4200 block of Houghton Street. 96-year-old Bertha Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene. She was suffering from blunt force trauma to the head and body....

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A teenager is now in police custody following a shooting on a SEPTA subway platform in Center City on Thursday, 7/14. The 14-year-old boy surrendered with his mother around 8 a.m. on Friday morning, 7/15. It happened around 12:25 p.m. Thursday at the 15th Street Station across from City Hall. The 19-year-old victim was on the platfrom when the 14-year-old suspect and another teen got off a...

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A teenage girl has also been arrested in the beating death of an elderly man in North Philadelphia last month. 14-year-old Gamara Mosley is charged as an adult with third-degree murder and criminal conspiracy in the death of 73-year-old James Lambert. Mosley surrendered to police Wednesday, 7/13. 14-year-old Richard Jones was charged in the murder earlier this week. A 13-year-old old and a...

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A teenage boy has been arrested in the beating death of an elderly man in North Philadelphia last month. 14-year-old Richard Jones is charged as an adult with third-degree murder and criminal conspiracy in the death of 73-year-old James Lambert. Jones surrendered to police along with his 10-year-old brother on Monday, 7/10. His brother was released. It all happened on June 24 around 2:45...

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Two brothers have surrendered to authorities in connection to the deadly beating of an elderly man by a group of teenagers last month in North Philadelphia. The incident was caught on surveillance video which was released yesterday, 7/10. The brothers, ages 10 and 14, are part of a group of seven suspects. It happened around 2:30 a.m. June 24 on the 2100 block of Cecil B. Moore Ave....

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Two men were ambushed, shot, and killed during a funeral procession in Upper Darby on Friday afternoon, 7/8. It happened around 1 p.m. near Marshall Road and Powell Lane outside Friends Southwestern Burial Ground. The victims were pronounced dead at the scene. "100% targeted, 100% ambushed. They were followed, and they were targeted, and they were assassinated and shot and killed," said...

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A man wanted for attacking and raping a woman in a Center City office building on Tuesday afternoon, 7/5, was taken into custody in South Jersey on Thursday night, 7/7. 49-year-old Willie L. Harris was arrested in Washington Township, New Jersey. The assault happened on the 200 block of N. 13th Street at Race Street. Harris entered the building and went to an unlocked 8th floor law office....

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July 2/3 - Playlist - Michael Tearson's ATTIC - Dangerous Times

1) "The House I Live In" by Josh White
2) "We Can Be Together" by Jefferson Airplane
3) "What Kind of American Are You?" by Tiny Tim
4) "Free and Equal Blues" by Josh White
5) "For What It’s Worth" by Staples Singers
6) "Get Up Stand Up" by Bob Marley & the Wailers
7) "A...

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