In 2007, the city of brotherly love averaged more than one murder and four shootings a day. This site, by writer Kia Gregory, profiles the city's deadly violence, the people it threatens, and the people who fight desperately for solutions.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Jerome Davis, Jr, 18
On August 14 at 10:38 pm, police responded to a call of shooting on the 1500 block of Federal Street. At the location, inside Todaro Locksmith, police found a 18-year-old black male, Jerome Davis, Jr., with a gunshot wound to the head, neck and hands. Police said Davis attempted to rob the store at gunpoint when the owner shot him with a shotgun. Davis, of the 3800 block of 19th Street, was transported to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in critical condition. He was pronounced dead at 11:32 pm.
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