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Police ID Boy Killed By Man, Mom Who Told Family He Was Fatally Struck By Car: Philadelphia PD Police ID Boy Killed By Man, Mom Who Told Family He Was Fatally Struck By Car: Philadelphia PD
Police ID Boy Killed By Man, Mom Who Told Family He Was Fatally Struck By Car: Philadelphia PD Police have arrested a 30-year-old Philadelphia man who they say helped a 28-year-old mother kill her 4-year-old son, whom she said died after he was struck by a vehicle, authorities announced. Dominique Bailey, of Lebanon Street, has been charged with murder, endangering the welfare of a child, false reports, abuse of corpse, and related offenses in the death of Damari Carter, Philadelphia police said on Saturday, Jan. 6 (Click here for photos of Damari from AIDBIPOC). Kevin Spence, 30, who lives on the 3800 block of Reno Street, was later charged in the case with criminal conspiracy, murd…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Man Arrested For Shooting GF, 1-Year-Old Daughter In Philadelphia, Police Say Man Arrested For Shooting GF, 1-Year-Old Daughter In Philadelphia, Police Say
Man Arrested For Shooting GF, 1-Year-Old Daughter In Philadelphia, Police Say A man who told authorities he wasn't home when his girlfriend and 1-year-old daughter were shot in the Kensington section of Philadelphia Thursday has been arrested in the incident.  Desmond Bruson, 34, is accused of shooting the 33-year-old woman and child in a home on the 1100 block of South 56th Street sometime before 2 a.m., city police said. Bruson apparently had told police he left the house for 10 minutes and "found the victim unresponsive in the second-floor bedroom bleeding from the nose" when he got back. The woman was rushed to Penn Presbyterian Hospital with two …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Murphy Closing Edna Mahan Women's Prison, Releases Report Into Violent Cell Extractions Murphy Closing Edna Mahan Women's Prison, Releases Report Into Violent Cell Extractions
Murphy Closing Edna Mahan Women's Prison, Releases Report Into Violent Cell Extractions New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday announced he would be closing the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women amid a series of abuse and rapes. “Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women has a long history of abusive incidents predating our Administration, and we must now commit ourselves to completely breaking this pattern of misconduct to better serve incarcerated women entrusted to the State’s care. Murphy also released an investigative report detailing cell extractions at the facility that occurred on Jan. 11, calling them "disturbing and horrific." The 75-page document maintain…

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by Cecilia Levine