My son the same gun that shot that sixyearold should not be on the street today. Reporter sherri ryan stood before this East Germantown community with a raw and heartfelt testimony about her son terrence. She and others affected by gun violence along with Community Groups fighting against the problem were part of a rally today at ashmead and magnolia. Its where several people including a sixyearold boy was shot last week. The rally was organized by the philadelphia antiviolence coalition. And for a father who already lost his son, a passionate plea for residents to police their communities along with law enforcement. We know who they are f yes. We know yall. Just because its your nephew or your brother or your cousin we got to give them up. We got to give them up before they kill somebody else. Thats right. Reporter also at the end of the rally some of those organizations gave out free gun locks to the community. Lucy, back to you. Thank you, shawnette. On your radar tonight storms are
Prayers for piece in philadelphias germantown neighborhood tonight. The scene of a rash of gunfire that lately has injured not one but two, sixyearolds in matter of days. Good evening, im lucy noland. Those prayers happened tonight at a rally in a neighborhood that has seen too much tragedy. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson was there live at 35th District Police headquarters now. Shawnette . Reporter lucy, you can imagine this community is crying out for an end to the violence and others are pleading with the community to speak up about what they know. 25 years ago this gun killed my son the same gun that shot that sixyearold should not be on the street today. Reporter sherri ryan stood before this East Germantown community with a raw and heartfelt testimony about her son terrence. She and others affected by gun violence along with Community Groups fighting against the problem were part of a rally today at ashmead and magnolia. Its where several people including a sixyearold boy was shot last
Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 10. Developing at 10, a brawl that got so brutal one local woman walked away missing part of her finger. That woman she was fighting not off parter of their index finger. Police are trying to nail down the chain of events. Im lucy noland. Im iain page. It was violent fight that took a sharp turn for the worst. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is at the Philadelphia Police headquarters tonight with the story. Dave . Reporter iain, police and witnesses tell us this fight escalated very quickly and stretched from one side of the street to the other side of the street. What was behind it an argument over 20. Girls kept hitting, her sister kept hitting. Reporter thats the way witnesses describe the all out brawl between two young women Tuesday Morning that started in this backyard and ended on this street corner. With one of female brawlers getting her index finger bitten off. It was terrible. You know, it was terrible. Why would you bit