Gun Violence

Kenyatta Johnson describes Philly’s gun violence problem as a five-alarm emergency devastating our communities, adding that we must do everything within our power to stop it.

At a town hall Tuesday, Philly students shared what they want to see in their schools and from the next superintendent, amid a search for the district’s new leader.

Kizer, who was 17 at the time, is accused of shooting Randall P. Volar III in the head; Volar had previously been arrested on child sexual assault charges.

Families of more than a dozen victims of the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Fla., have reached a settlement with the Justice Department to resolve their lawsuit.

Philadelphia’s District Attorney said he is worried police do not have enough resources to solve and investigate a historic number of murders.

Gun violence dropped dramatically after West Philly’s House of Umoja brokered a ceasefire in 1974. The organization’s matriarch says it’s time for a new treaty.

Across much of the United States, it has become increasingly acceptable for Americans to walk the streets with firearms, either carried openly or legally concealed.

Go to jury duty and vote for judges. That’s the advice Andre D. Carroll offered his fellow Black Americans after a jury found Rittenhouse not guilty.

Two mistrial requests from the defense are hanging over the politically and racially fraught case.

After a Harrowgate firebombing, City Council is considering a bill that would allocate $500,000 to help people under threat of retaliatory violence.

Attorneys in Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial sparred for the last time Monday during closing arguments.

Police are investigating a series of shootings, including a mass shooting in Kensington that left six people injured.

First-degree murder charges are filed against two people in a gunfight near Academy Park High before the shooting by Sharon Hill police officers.

One man is in custody facing murder charges after the shooting near the Christmas Village construction site, another example of pervasive violence.

According to police, the suspect was working security when he became involved in a disturbance with the 29-year-old victim.