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Security Kills Man in LOVE Park; 'No Toxic Chemicals' After Junkyard Fire; PA School Mask Mandate

by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 11/10/21 3:39 pm | updated: 11/10/21 3:39 pm

A private security guard working at LOVE Park in Philadelphia while the Christmas Village exhibit is under construction shot and killed a man on Tuesday evening, 11/9. 43-year-old Gregory Thomas Sr. is charged with murder and other offenses. It happened around 8:45 p.m. in the park at 15th Street and John F. Kennedy Boulevard in Center City. 29-year-old Ryan Groff of Lancaster had been walking around the park for about an hour. The two men got into an altercation or disturbance. Thomas went to his 2007 Jeep that was parked nearby and retrieved a duffel bag. He pulled a gun out of the bag and shot Groff multiple time before fleeing in his vehicle. Police took Groff to Jefferson University Hospital were he was pronounced dead. The operations manager for the security company was able to convince Thomas to surrender himself later Tuesday night. The motive for the shooting is still unknown.

Philadelphia Health Officials announced on Wednesday afternoon, 11/10, that they found "no toxic chemical at levels that would be harmful to your health" following a junkyard fire in Southwest Philadelphia on Tuesday afternoon. They did say that people should limit exposure to the 'particulate matter' in the air, smoke, and haze. The two-alarm fire started around 3 p.m. on 11/9 at a recycling plant on the 3100 block of 61st Street near Lindbergh Boulevard. Dozens of fire fighters and trucks responded to the scene. It took two and a half hours to bring it under control. There are still hotspots today continuing to cause smoke and the smell. The cause is under investigation.

People who are near the smoke or haze should limit their time outside, especially if they have heart or lung problems. Due to the weather, this situation could last through the night. (2/2)
— Philadelphia Public Health (@PHLPublicHealth) November 10, 2021

Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court threw out a state Health Department mandate requiring masks in all K-12 schools and child care facilities. The Wolf administration plans to appeal the decision to the PA Supreme Court. This court ruled 4-1. This mask mandate was put in place at the beginning of the school year by Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam. Republican State Rep. Jesse Topper called it "an end-around the constitutional amendment passed by the people, limiting the executive branch's authority during a state of emergency." Judge Christine Fizzano Cannon wrote for the majority and says the state's health control law does not give the health secretary "the blanket authority to create new rules and regulations out of whole cloth, provided they are related in some way to the control of disease or can otherwise be characterized as disease control measures." Cannon also said that the judges decision is only about the constitutionality of the mandate, not about the science or politics of wearing masks. She said the judges "express herein no opinion regarding the science or efficacy of mask-wearing or the politics underlying the considerable controversy the subject continues to engender."

Governor Tom Wolf announced this week that the mandate would expire on January 17th and masking decisions would return to local control

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