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Longawaited Charges Filed Against PA Police Officers In Killing Of 8-Year-Old Girl Longawaited Charges Filed Against PA Police Officers In Killing Of 8-Year-Old Girl
Longawaited Charges Filed Against PA Police Officers In Killing Of 8-Year-Old Girl Murder charges have been withdrawn for two individuals accused of killing an 8-year-old girl at a Delaware County football stadium last summer, and instead, three local police officers are accused of manslaughter. A.J. Ford and Hasein Strand were initially charged with murder in the shooting death of Fanta Bility near the entrance of the Academy Park High School football stadium on Aug. 27, 2021 in Sharon Hill.  Strand had fired shots toward the three officers monitoring the game, and the Sharon Hill officers -- Devon Smith, Sean Dolan, and Brian Devaney -- fired back, District Attorney Ja…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Police Likely Shot Young Girl At Suburban Philly Football Game, DA Says Police Likely Shot Young Girl At Suburban Philly Football Game, DA Says
Police Likely Shot Young Girl At Suburban Philly Football Game, DA Says Preliminary ballistics analysis has concluded with "near certainty" that the shots that killed 8-year-old Fanta Bility and injured four others in Delaware County last month were fired by police officers, authorities said. The events of Aug. 27 began when "a group of young males engaged in a verbal confrontation that turned into gunfire on the 900 block of Coates Street, one block west of the entrance to the Academy Park High School football stadium," in Sharon Hill, Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said in a statement on Monday. "The confrontation occurred …

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by Nicole Acosta