Killadelphia: City looking at between 540 and 550 murders this year Twelve people reported murdered over the last two days, and The Philadelphia Inquirer has exactly zero stories on them.

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There are times I worry that I’m starting to sound like a broken record, but the City of Brotherly Love has become just appalling. It was just yesterday that I noted that Philadelphia had seen six homicides on Wednesday, July 6th, and all six were the murders of black males.

Well, the Philadelphia Police Department’s Current Crime Statistics page now reports another six killings, as of 11:59 PM EDT on Thursday, July 7th. The city’s Shooting Victims Database reports ‘only’ two homicides by firearms, with both victims being black males, in eight total shootings, with seven black victims, and one victim reported as being a white Hispanic male and, in the first time I have ever seen this in that database, one of the black males also reported as being Hispanic.

Mr Keeley’s math is wrong. As of 11:59 PM EDT on Thursday, June 30th, The Philly Police reported 257 homicides: 280 – 257 = 23. Nevertheless, this is mind boggling. Remember: twelve homicides were reported on two weekdays, not the weekend.

There may be some catch-up in the report, of people reported as seriously wounded several days ago, but if you thought that surely, surely! that even The Philadelphia Inquirer would have to have noticed, you’d have been wrong, or at least you would have been wrong at 12:03 PM EDT.

Now the math: 280 homicides ÷ 188 days = 1.4894 per day, or a projected 543.62 murders for the year. Done a different way, dividing the number of murders this year by the same number on the same day as last year, and then multiplying by 562, last year’s homicide total, I come up with a projected 548.29 killings. Either way, the city is looking at a homicide total in the 540-550 range.

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  2. Killadelphia is metastasizing!

    2 men fatally shot while riding in funeral procession in Upper Darby

    “They were definitely targeted and ambushed,” said Upper Darby Police Superintendent Timothy M. Bernhardt.

    by Robert Moran | Friday, July 8, 2022

    Two men were fatally shot while riding in a funeral procession on Friday afternoon to a cemetery in Upper Darby for the burial of a homicide victim from Philadelphia, police said.

    Shortly before 1 p.m., the large procession was in the area of Marshall and Old Marshall Roads near Friends Southwestern Burial Ground when unknown men drove up alongside, got out of their vehicle, and started shooting into a sedan, said Upper Darby Police Superintendent Timothy M. Bernhardt.

    The victims, ages 21 and 25, were in the driver’s and front-passenger seats of the sedan when they were shot, Bernhardt said. The men, whose names were being withheld pending family notifications, were pronounced dead at the scene.

    “They were definitely targeted and ambushed,” Bernhardt said in a phone interview.

    JESSICA GRIFFIN / Staff Photographer
    The slow-moving procession had just moved into Upper Darby from Philadelphia and was about 500 yards from Cobbs Creek Parkway when the shooting occurred.

    The shooters got back in their vehicle and fled.

    Bernhardt said investigators were interviewing witnesses, checking area surveillance video, and working with Philadelphia police to determine if there is a connection with the recent homicide victim who was to be buried Friday.

    Representatives for Friends Southwestern Burial Ground could not be reached for comment.

    In early 2021, there were two midday shootings at the burial ground and investigators at the time said those incidents appeared to be gang-related.

    In recent years, the burial ground has seen an increase in funerals because the site offers “green burials” in which un-embalmed bodies are laid into the earth without a casket. Such burials can be substantially less costly than regular funerals and also are favored in Muslim communities for religious reasons.

    This won’t count as a Philadelphia murder, since they were just over the border into Upper Darby, but it’s a Philly murder nevertheless.

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