We have previously reported on the shooting, allegedly by the-17-year-old Quadir Humphrey, which struck a 16-year-old victim in the head. We also noted:

(I)F the reports I’ve seen on Twitter are correct, the victim has a “non-survivable brain injury” and is “now brain dead,” so the charges will surely be upgraded to murder.

More information has now been made public:

The 16-year-old shot at SEPTA station will not survive, mom says

Quadir Humphrey, 18, and Zaire Wilson, 16, will likely be charged with murder.

by Ellie Rushing | Tuesday, January 16, 2024 | 2:26 PM EST

The 16-year-old who was critically wounded in a shooting on the subway platform last week will not survive his injuries, his mother said Tuesday.

Tyshaun Welles, a sophomore at Frankford High School, has been on life support since Thursday night, when he was shot in the head by a stray bullet after two teens opened fire at the City Hall SEPTA station, said his mother, Racquel Bango.

Welles had spent that evening dancing with friends at LevelUP, a neighborhood organization in West Philadelphia, Bango said. He was standing on the subway platform around 9:30 p.m. talking to friends before catching a subway back to his family’s home in the Northeast when police say Quadir Humphrey, 18, with Zaire Wilson, 16, pulled out a gun and started shooting.

One of the bullets struck Welles in the head — detectives believe it may have ricocheted off the wall, and do not believe he was the intended target. Transit police, who were on the platform when Humphrey opened fire, scooped Welles into their arms and rushed him to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where doctors worked to save his life over the last four days.

There’s more at the original, noting that young Mr Welles has been determined to be brain dead, and that he will have been taken off artificial life support at 4:00 PM today. Actually, I was typing this at 4:02 PM, so such should already have happened.

There’s a depressing tendency to call this just another black kid killed in Philly, ho hum, no real story, and I might have simply added an addendum to the original, except for one thing. Mr Welles had been with friends at LevelUP, which says about itself on its website main page:

Philadelphia’s escalating violence, affecting our teens both as victims and perpetrators, calls for immediate action. With youth grappling with poverty, homelessness, PTSD, depression, and despair, Level Up steps in.

We engage young people from high-risk neighborhoods directly on Philadelphia’s front lines, combating these crises and transforming lives.

Urban Dream Chasers (our guiding 501(c)3 entity) anchors Level Up, a holistic mentoring initiative for high-risk youth.

We offer services like counseling, crime intervention, academic support, and housing aid, all geared towards a larger goal: establishing the city’s best art STEM lab to prepare high-risk youth for the global technology-powered job market of the future.

In the heart of the city, our 12,000 sq ft ‘safe space’—including a custom-built dance studio—serves as a refuge for over 900 high-risk youth weekly from over 81 different middle and high schools across the city.

From every dangerous corner of the city, these young people find hope and community in Level Up’s weekly & monthly gatherings.

It seems that young Mr Welles was at least trying to do the right thing, trying to put himself into a culture and life pattern which would lead him to become a stable and productive man in the City of Brotherly Love, someone other people would be proud to know, someone hard-working and responsible, and someone who could be part of Philly’s future.

Did Mr Humphrey’s mother know what Quadir means when she named him?

The name Quadir is a variant of Qadir, an Arabic name that means ‘capable’ or ‘mighty.’ It is a Muslim name derived from the Arabic words qādir or qadīr, thus meaning ‘powerful’ or ‘able.’

The name is a direct Quranic name mentioned as al-Qadir in Islamic tradition as one of the ninety-nine names of Allah. Qadir is used in different places in the Quran, as a result of which it also gets the contextual meaning ‘almighty.’ The name is often used as a combination name such as Abd al-Qadir or Abdulkadir, meaning ‘servant of the powerful,’ and Nur al-Qādir meaning ‘light of the all-powerful.’

It would seem to me that if Mr Humphrey is convicted, he’ll get to be capable or mighty behind bars, locked away in prison. Had District Attorney Larry Krasner and his minions treated him seriously following his first two arrests, on June 4, 2021 on a gun charge, and March 4, 2023, when he was caught driving a stolen car, and taken him to trial quickly — the previous charges against him are still “pending in juvenile court” — Mr Humphrey would have been behind bars last Thursday evening, and not shooting off six rounds for whatever unknown reason he had, and he wouldn’t be looking at spending the rest of his miserable life in prison.

A senseless act last week, one not even targeting Mr Welles, has ruined three lives. Mr Welles, of course, will be dead. Mr Humphrey, unless Mr Krasner cuts him some sort of lenient plea bargain — something that is always possible with that George Soros-sponsored, police hating and criminal sympathizing prosecutor — will be spending a couple of decades, if not more, locked away. And 16-year-old Zaire Wilson? He could be charged with murder as well, even though he did not do the shooting, because that is the way the law is written. The District Attorney might choose not to do that, but let’s tell the truth here: if he was hanging around with Mr Humphrey, he’s not likely to be a good guy, and the more time he spends in prison, the safer the city will be.