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Anything that happens here. I am a part of the community. Residents living in chester Delaware County are fed up. Federal officials already consider it one of the most violent cities in the country and so far this year things are worse than before. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im iain page. Im lucy noland. Community members came together to try to stop the violence that is killing their friends, their family and their neighbors. Our bruce gordon is live in chester. Bruce, what an a emotion packed evening. Reporter yeah, it sure was. Look, seven weeks into the new year and already seven homicides in a steve 34,000 people. To night as you say some of those people came here to city hall to say theyve had enough. Youve heard the expression, preaching to the choir . Well, meet the choir. More than 100 chester residents who care enough about their community to come out on a bitter cold night to search for solutions to an out of contr ....
Found the Taylor Family. Joy and terrence and eight month old terrence, jr. Joy is concerned about her babys future. Hes a young black mail. Young black males have targets on their backs and its important for me to make sure im listening and im aware of whats going on. Reporter chesters murder rate in 2016 was roughly four times hire than that of philadelphia. This year the city is on pace to double last years carnage. Residents of this town heal meeting listed their concerns easy to access guns, abandoned homes, trash, teen loitering, few security cameras. Absentee parents. One woman brought to the meeting a banner with the names of chester murder victims dating back to 1980. Edith blackwell found the names of her two never tuesday. She herself was wounded in a 2012 gas station shootout. You got hit in the back. Got hit in the back with a bullet. Yes. At that point did you say to yourself i got to get out of this town . I did, but ....
Found the Taylor Family. Joy and terrence and eight month old terrence, jr. Joy is concerned about her babys future. Hes a young black mail. Young black males have targets on their backs and its important for me to make sure im listening and im aware of whats going on. Reporter chesters murder rate in 2016 was roughly four times hire than that of philadelphia. This year the city is on pace to double last years carnage. Residents of this town heal meeting listed their concerns easy to access guns, abandoned homes, trash, teen loitering, few security cameras. Absentee parents. One woman brought to the meeting a banner with the names of chester murder victims dating back to 1980. Edith blackwell found the names of her two never tuesday. She herself was wounded in a 2012 gas station shootout. You got hit in the back. Got hit in the back with a bullet. Yes. At that point did you say to yourself i got to get out of this town . I did, but ....
Have to wait a day for those shorts or at least short sleeves shorts. And most of our wind chills, are in the teens this morning. So it is colder then it has been . Coldest room in the week, last day of the workweek because we have clear skies, overnight the but clear skies, also mean we will get sunshine today. We will get to 33 degrees and seasonal high of 44 degrees. Sunset at 5 40. Weekend will be underway. For many a Holiday Weekend. We will have that forecast coming up, bob killie three day weekend for toll accounts with president s day and kid off from school on monday, but good friday morning. 5 01. We have a tractor trailer accident on the new jersey turnpike. The accident itself is southbound, approaching, exit number four, between mount holly and the mount laurel interchange. Now they had all traffic stopped for over an hour, and they just now started letting some of the stuck traffic through and youll see on the overn ....