Gun Violence

Prosecutors say they’ve connected six murders in the Wilmington area to the NorthPak gang. Fourteen defendants have been indicted on 120 charges.

Philadelphia police are investigating a triple shooting in West Philadelphia that left two men dead and a 3-year-old child injured.

Philadelphia is set to spend $155M on anti-violence efforts in the next fiscal year. It’s not all new funding, still the total is a sizable increase.

“That’s a comprehensive approach that we’re taking to address this issue,” said Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson.

The office is hosting four town halls to crowdsource solutions to the city’s gun violence epidemic. The first one was held Monday in West Philly.

President Joe Biden said on the fifth anniversary of a mass shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando that he will sign a bill naming the site as a national memorial.

It’s a troubling trend on top of this year’s substantial increases thus far in both shooting victims and homicide victims.

State law prevents Philadelphia from enacting its own gun control measures. A new lawsuit against the General Assembly aims to change that.

The city is asking the court to invalidate a Pa. rule that makes it illegal for municipalities to pass their own measures aimed at curbing gun violence.

A letter sent Friday calls for investments designed to help neighborhoods most impacted by Philadelphia’s gun violence epidemic.

Should qualified immunity, the doctrine that protects the police from civil lawsuits, be ended?

As Philadelphia struggles with continuing violence, councilmembers heard how employment and entrepreneurship could be key to preventing it.

Local pastor Derrick Johnson said officers told him the man accused of shooting three officers during an overnight standoff took his own life Thursday morning.

Tamara Russell, aka P.O.C., hit the streets to see how residents feel about Philly Weekly’s gun violence contest, which asks readers to guess the city’s homicide total.

A group of city lawmakers is asking the Kenney administration to spend at least $50 million on anti-violence efforts designed to keep young people safe from gun violence.