Philadelphia has recorded its 500th homicide this year, surpassing a bleak milestone for the second year in a row. Within this tragic total are people so much more than a statistic — mothers and sons; fathers and daughters; entrepreneurs and students.
Thirty of those killed were juveniles. Seven were 14 years old or younger, their hopes and dreams — ofand star athletes, of graduating from high school — cut far too short. Like Jeremiah Wilcox, 13; Nicolas Elizalde, 14; Sincere Zy’Ree, 16.
Philadelphia has been plagued by gun violence for decades, but a spike in shootings began in spring 2020, when the coronavirus epidemic upended the city’s social and economic safety nets, and has remained persistent ever since, reaching heights unseen in recent memory. Experts have said it could take years to fully understand what triggered the uptick, which has been seen nationwide.
Mayor Jim Kenney, too, said that he was hopeful, but that even one homicide is too many. He again criticized Pennsylvania’s gun laws, saying the proliferation of guns is a driving force in the violence. And just hours after he was shot, a mother of three was killed in her home. Maisah Larkin, 39, was fatally shot by the father of her children in what police have said was an act of domestic violence. Stanley Baptiste, 37, shot Larkin inside the home that they shared in the city’s West Oak Lane section, then fled with their 2-year-old triplets, police said.
Larkin is one of 42 people killed in domestic-violence incidents this year, a slight uptick from the same time last year and part of a troubling rise in domestic homicides, especially by guns, over the last few years.
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