Philadelphia is a busy urban nucleus. February 17
th was no exception. Famous musician John Legend and Senator Elizabeth Warren held a $1,000 a person fundraiser for Billionaire George Soros backed Philadelphia District Attorney, Larry Krasner. Just prior to these famous folks and their deep-pocketed socialist friends celebrating a murderous political figure, 8 people were shot in broad daylight in a busy Philadelphia intersection leaving one man in critical condition.
This is nothing new in Krasner’s Philadelphia. Just last year more than 2,400 people were shot in Philly, breaking recent records, and since 2015, 8,500 shootings have left people wounded or killed while only nine percent have reached a conviction that boils down to just one out of 11 violent criminals that are actually prosecuted.
eye on the news
Under the Gun in Philly As murders mount and public pressure grows, city officials continue to look for answers in the wrong places.
Public safety
In Philadelphia, a 25-year-old Temple University grad was shot and killed last month while walking his dog in the evening. The next day, police apprehended his assailant during an attempted carjacking in another part of the city.
The victim, Milan Loncar, was a resident of Brewerytown, a formerly drug- and crime-ridden neighborhood transformed into another “go-to” spot by real estate investors over the last two decades. Loncar’s assailant, Josephus Davis, 20, also a Brewerytown resident, had a long criminal record and had gotten out of jail two weeks prior on reduced bail.
January 28, 2021
In Philadelphia in January, 25-year old Milan Loncar a recent Temple University graduate and husband to be was walking his dog when he was brutally gunned down in the streets of Philadelphia, the victim of an armed robbery that he did not resist. He died while still holding the leash of his rescue dog.
The gunman had a violent criminal history and should have been in jail the night of Loncar’s murder, but he had been released on reduced bail just two weeks prior. Due to the crack work of Philadelphia’s Finest, the 20-year old habitual criminal was apprehended within hours of the crime. But what if the police were no longer on the job?
Suspect freed on dramatically reduced bail 2 weeks before Temple grad killed while walking dog in Brewerytown
FOX 29 s Kelly Rule spoke with Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner about the case.
PHILADELPHIA - A man charged with the murder of a 25-year-old Temple University graduate walking his dog in Brewerytown was released on reduced bail about two weeks prior, according to court records and law enforcement officials.
FOX 29 s Kelly Rule spoke with Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner about the case. We ve got to not only look at the little picture. We ve got to look at the big picture about a system that has failed, Krasner said.