Killadelphia A 15-year-old was killed, possibly as a result of an earlier fist fight.

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A 12-year-old, the son of criminals, takes a shot at the police, and winds up dead. A 15-year-old is arrested for shooting at teenaged girls in a fleeing car, hitting two of them, and the police say that he is a suspect in two other shootings as well. A 17-year-old is accused of shooting and killing a Temple University student in a botched robbery.

Is it any wonder that Philadelphians are applying for concealed carry permits at a record-breaking pace?

    13-year-old boy shot in head in West Philly

    The victim was sitting alone in a car at 49th and Hoopes Streets when someone started shooting shortly before 8:30 p.m., police said.

    by Robert Moran | Monday, April 4, 2022 | 9:55 PM EDT

    A 13-year-old boy was hospitalized in critical condition after he was shot in the head Monday night in the Mill Creek section of West Philadelphia, police said.

    The shooting was reported shortly before 8:30 p.m. at 49th and Hoopes Street.

4931 Hoopes Street, listed for sale at $125,000, from Zillow.com.

Hoopes Street consists almost entirely of two-story row homes, in not the best or repair, and 49th in that area is no better, yet people are being charged $1,195 a month to rent these marginal residences, at least according to this listing on Zillow. A vacant lot at 4935 Hoopes Street is being listed for $50,000, while this disaster at 4931 Hoopes is being listed for $125,000.[1]Here are the other three photos of 4931 Hoopes Street, from the current Zillow listing. Those photos will eventually disappear from the listing if that dump is ever sold. No wonder people in this neighborhood have little hope; they’re being robbed just to live in dumps! Yet it was a neighborhood which got a 13-year-old boy shot in the head; what could have been worth that in that neighborhood?

    The boy, who lives in the neighborhood, was sitting alone in the front passenger seat of an Acura SUV when someone approached the car from that side and opened fire, said Capt. John Walker, commanding officer of the Shooting Investigation Group.

The police believe that the victim was personally targeted, and several shots were fired at him. As of Tuesday morning, Fox29 is reporting that the victim is still “fighting for his life,” so he is not a current homicide statistic.

What does it say that I have quite reasonably referred to a 13-year-old boy as a “statistic”?

A 15-year-old boy was shot dead in the city earlier in the day, and police said that at least 20 shots had been fired in the confrontation. Fox29 reported, that a law enforcement source said that investigators believe the shooting may have stemmed from a fist fight earlier in the day.

At some point it has to be asked: what can a 15-year-old, an eighth grader, and a 13-year-old have done to have caused their enemies to hunt them down and assassinate them in deliberate, targeted killings? One murder was possibly a revenge engagement from a fist fight? If that’s the case, then investigators will know with whom the fist fight occurred, and he’ll be caught. One kid is dead, and another will be locked up, hopefully for the rest of his miserable life, behind a fist fight?

In just the first three days of April, ten people, all of them black, were shot in the city, two fatally, and it’s nothing other than routine in the City of Brotherly Love. 125 people have been murdered in Philly as of 11:59 PM EDT on Monday, April 4th, and April 4th in 2021 was the end of a weekend.

Also read: The Philadelphia Inquirer: ‘I just need to know why.’ Mother pleads for answers in the slaying of son, 15.

This is a cultural thing, an urban culture which glorifies carrying guns to the point that adolescents are doing so, exhibiting the quick, responsive, irresponsible and immature judgement of adolescents, and other adolescents are frequently the victims when these kids start firing away. But no one will ask why this is the case, no one will even acknowledge that this could be the result of an urban culture, because that will lead to the obvious point: this is a primarily black phenomenon, and to point out that is raaaaacist.

It ought to be obvious: you cannot address a problem, and certainly cannot solve a problem, if you will not admit the problem, if you cannot discuss the problem, and no one wants to do that, not with this problem. The political, intellectual, and journalistic leaders in the city would rather ignore the problem, would rather see the killing continue, than to risk being labeled racists by doing the very radical thing of just telling the truth.

We have previously noted that not only does The Philadelphia Inquirer decline to print such news itself, but has criticized other media for reporting the news the editors of the Inquirer believe should be ignored.

Of course, the people of Philly know that the problem of killings in the city is a largely black problem; just because the Inquirer specifically, and the rest of the media more generally, try to obscure that doesn’t mean that the public are unaware. When Philadelphians hear that these killings are happening in Kensington or North Philadelphia or Strawberry Mansion or around Temple University or in West Philly, they know that these are heavily black neighborhoods. The primarily law-abiding black residents in those areas have to dread what can happen on their streets, and the wealthier white liberals don’t need to care, because Chestnut Hill and Rittenhouse Square just don’t experience that violence. The truth is that black lives don’t matter, not in Philadelphia, at least they don’t matter enough to address the problems.

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↑1 Here are the other three photos of 4931 Hoopes Street, from the current Zillow listing. Those photos will eventually disappear from the listing if that dump is ever sold.
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4 thoughts on “Killadelphia A 15-year-old was killed, possibly as a result of an earlier fist fight.”

  1. When I look at the dump that is 4931 Hoopes Street, I see a place that could be fixed up, if a flipper put some money into it, but when I look at the rest of Hoopes Street, I don’t see a neighborhood in which 4931 could ever sell, no matter how nicely restored, for enough money to just break even for a flipper.

  2. Philadelphia updated its shooting statistics after this article was published. There were 13 shooting victims on just Monday, April 4th, all of them male, 11 black and two white. As it happens, the two listed fatalities, of the 15-year-old and a 34-year-old, were the two white males who were shot. The 34-year-old was shot while inside, in the 4800 block of Frankford Avenue.

    The 4800 block of Frankford Avenue is a lower-rent commercial district, while the side streets are more Philadelphia row houses, though they look to be in better shape than Hoopes Street.

  3. More information is being reported concerning the case of the 15-year-old killed. From KYW-TV:

    Police Say 15-Year-Old Juan Carlos Robles-Corona Was Ambushed In Deadly Shooting While Leaving School

    By Matt Petrillo | April 5, 2022 | 1:21 PM EDT

    PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia police say 8th grader Juan Carlos Robles-Corona was shot and killed while walking home from school in North Philadelphia on Monday afternoon. His mother is now speaking out following his fatal shooting.

    His mother tells CBS3 he left school ten minutes early and she’s not sure why the school allowed that to happen.

    “Yesterday they said that he was on his way from school going home. He was not on his way from school. I don’t know what happened in school. I don’t know why the school didn’t inform me that he left early, you know. If they would have — I don’t know, picked him up or they would have called me and said, you know, Juan left school, I could have called him and said go back to school, go back to school,” the victim’s mother Maria Balbuena said as she fought back tears.

    Police are calling the fatal shooting of that 15-year-old an ambush, saying it follows a series of fights between the 15-year-old and at least two shooters from over the weekend.

    Officers say multiple shooters were hiding behind a car before confronting the teen before opening fire.

    The shooting happened just before 2:45 p.m. on the 2200 block of North 15th Street.

    Police say the teen victim was shot four times. The State Attorney General spoke about the shooting Tuesday morning along with the Philadelphia school superintendent.

    The weapon in the incident has been recovered. But no arrests have been made.

    Twenty shots were fired, and only four hit the victim? Sixteen bullets went flying, endangering other people?

    Think about this: this is no longer adolescents reacting to a lost fistfight, but at least two, with the time to consider just what they were doing, laying in wait to murder a specific individual, at least two people deciding that it was a wise idea to risk going to jail for the rest of their miserable lives — which I very much hope that they do — to kill an 8th grader with whom that had been fighting.

    Once the shooters have been caught, Philadelphians need to demand that District Attorney Larry Krasner charge and try them as adults, and lock them away for as long as the law allows.

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