Gun Violence

"There were at least 150 people in there that fled and believed they had to flee for their lives, so that’s a pretty big deal,” Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said.

The clergy group also recommended that Mayor Jim Kenney appoint a czar or deputy mayor delegated to comprehensively addressing violence eradication.

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.

The House on Thursday passed two bills aimed at strengthening the nation's gun laws, including stricter background checks.

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.