PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia contends that a local man who claimed he was the victim of excessive force from a member of the Philadelphia Police Department two years ago, when an officer shot him three times during his suffering of a mental health episode, has not properly pled a municipal liability claim against the City and the officer involved.
PHILADELPHIA – A local man alleges he was the victim of excessive force from a member of the Philadelphia Police Department two years ago, when an officer shot him three times during his suffering of a mental health episode.
Over the course of just five hours, six people were shot in Philadelphia on Thursday night. Four were killed and two were injured in five separate incidents across various neighborhoods in North and Northeast Philadelphia. This brought the city to 325 homicides for 2022 so far. That's more than the 322 recorded at this point in 2021, which was Philadelphia's deadliest year on record.
Authorities said the body of 34-year-old Sirius Star was found wrapped in a tarp with his hands and feet tied. A short video clip obtained by FOX 29 shows two people dumping Star's body wrapped in a tarp in a vacant lot in Kensington.