Gun Violence

Twenty-year-old Rodney Hargrove was killed roughly an hour after he left Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility.

In this edition of Schooled, we are telling the stories of three students who were killed in the past year during the nation’s other public health crisis: gun violence.

The Kenney administration held its first long-promised public briefing on the city’s gun violence epidemic. Here’s what happened.

Anti-violence activists have mixed feelings about the effort, with some skeptical that police understand communities well enough to know what they’re seeing.

Federal authorities arrested one trafficker at 30th Street Station. He was traveling with a duffel bag containing 10 pistols he purchased in his home state of North Carolina.

The activism of hunger striker Jamal Johnson is known nationwide.

Eagle Arms Productions, the largest firearms show promoter in Pennsylvania, will no longer sell ready-to-assemble gun kits that create untraceable weapons.

No arrests have been made and weapons have not been recovered in either shooting.

Residents say gun violence is always top-of-mind, even when the shooting’s not in their neighborhood.

As of Tuesday, a total of 34 children age 17 and under have been shot in 2021, according to police. Eight of them died.

So-called ghost guns, weapons that can be bought as kits to be assembled into untraceable firearms, have become the “weapon of choice” in Philly, authorities said.

An initiative by The Trace wants to connect you with information on recovering from shootings, keeping young people safe, and holding local leaders accountable.

A bill passed Thursday will create a still-unfunded hotline designed to connect people affected by gun violence to available support resources and services.

Wednesday’s violence comes as shootings and homicides continue to surge at historic levels and police struggle to make arrests in both fatal and non-fatal shooting cases.

The four men allegedly played a role in seven shootings in West and Southwest Philadelphia in 2018 and 2019, including three children.