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5-Year-Old Girl Seriously Injured In Philadelphia Stabbing: Police 5-Year-Old Girl Seriously Injured In Philadelphia Stabbing: Police
5-Year-Old Girl Seriously Injured In Philadelphia Stabbing: Police Two victims — including a 5-year-old girl — are in critical condition after they were found with multiple stab wounds in Philadelphia, authorities say.  It happened on the 1800 block of North 20th Street just after 7:30 p.m. on Monday,  April 10, city police told Daily Voice. Officers were called for reports of a person with a weapon, and arrived to find both victims "laying on the floor covered in blood." The adult victim, a 37-year-old woman, had several stab wounds to the "arms and chest area," and was taken to Temple Hospital, the department wrote. The 5-year-old girl had…

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
13-Year-Old Shot In Philly Home: Police 13-Year-Old Shot In Philly Home: Police
13-Year-Old Shot In Philly Home: Police Detectives are investigating after a 13-year-old girl was shot in a Philadelphia home early on Tuesday, police told Daily Voice.  The victim was in a residence on the 2600 block of South 65th Street when she was struck once in the left arm just before 1 a.m. on Feb. 7, the department said. She was rushed to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia where she was placed in stable condition, they added.  No arrests have been made and no weapon was recovered from the scene, according to authorities.  Chief Inspector Scott Small told 6abc that the victim was standing by a win…

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by Mac Bullock
News
19 Confirmed Dead, Dozens More Critically Injured In Deadliest NYC Fire Of This Century 19 Confirmed Dead, Dozens More Critically Injured In Deadliest NYC Fire Of This Century
19 Confirmed Dead, Dozens More Critically Injured In Deadliest NYC Fire Of This Century UPDATE: At least 19 people, including nine children, were killed Sunday when a fire tore through a high-rise Bronx apartment building -- a blaze that New York City Mayor Eric Adams called "one of the worst that we have witnessed during modern times.” The cause of the five-alarm fire? A "malfunctioning electric space heater” in a bedroom of a duplex apartment on the second and third floors of the 19-story building, NYFD Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. A door to the apartment was left open, filling the building with smoke, Nigro told reporters. All of the children killed were 16 years old a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Young Girl Shot Near DelCo Convenience Store Young Girl Shot Near DelCo Convenience Store
Young Girl Shot Near DelCo Convenience Store A child was hospitalized after they were struck by gunfire near a convenience store parking lot in Chester Thursday, authorities said. Officers responding to the area of 9th and Tilghman Streets in Chester around 8:45 p.m. were told shots were fired in the parking lot of the nearby Chester Shop & Save, Chester police captain James Chubb said. Officers found multiple spent shell casings at the scene. They also found a home and numerous vehicles were struck by bullets. Officers at the scene were then told there was a walk-in shooting victim at Crozer Chester Medical Center. There, …

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by Nicole Acosta