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Coates Street, Sharon Hill, PA

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Park Shootout: Police Seek Gunmen In Brought Daylight Delco Incident Park Shootout: Police Seek Gunmen In Brought Daylight Delco Incident
Park Shootout: Police Seek Gunmen In Brought Daylight Delco Incident Police in Delaware County are seeking the two men involved in a shootout at a local park Sunday, Aug. 13. Multiple witnesses reported seeing two males shooting at each other at the Sharon Hill park along Chester Pike around 2:55 p.m. in Sharon Hill, borough police said. Officers responded to the park and in the 1100 block of Coates Street, and engaged in a brief foot pursuit with a light-skinned black male who had on a t-shirt, black pants, and twisted, braided hair, police said. The male was last seen running down Elmwood Avenue toward Folcroft Avenue. The second suspect is described as …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Heavily Redacted Report Released In Police Shooting Death Of PA's Fanta Bility Heavily Redacted Report Released In Police Shooting Death Of PA's Fanta Bility
Heavily Redacted Report Released In Police Shooting Death Of PA's Fanta Bility The Sharon Hill Borough Council released its heavily redacted report on the police shooting death of 8-year-old Fanta Bility last August. The 55-page report was released on Friday, July 29, leaving many members of the public, including the Bility family, with more questions than answers. One of the many blacked out pages in the report.Sharon Hill Borough Council Bruce L. Castor Jr., the attorney representing Bility's family, called the report "completely unacceptable in any society that values the truth and the Rule of Law." "That Sharon Hill Borough officials chose to hide from the pu…

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by Nicole Acosta
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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Longawaited Charges Filed Against PA Police Officers In Killing Of 8-Year-Old Girl Murder charges have been withdrawn for two individuals accused of killing an 8-year-old girl at a Delaware County football stadium last summer, and instead, three local police officers are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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Family Of DelCo Girl Killed By Police Gunfire Files Federal Lawsuit Family Of DelCo Girl Killed By Police Gunfire Files Federal Lawsuit
Family Of DelCo Girl Killed By Police Gunfire Files Federal Lawsuit The family of a young girl who was killed by police gunfire in Delaware County earlier this year has filed a federal lawsuit. The 10-page lawsuit named the borough of Sharon Hill, Sharon Hill police chief Joseph Kelly, police officers John Scanlan III and Devon Smith, as well as an unspecified number of additional officers whose names are unknown by the Bility family. Fanta Bility, 8, was killed when gunfire rang out outside Academy Park High School after a football game on Aug. 27, Daily Voice reported. Preliminary ballistics analysis has concluded with "near certainty" that the shots tha…

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by Nicole Acosta
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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
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DA: Shots That Killed Young Girl At DelCo Football Game Most Likely Came From Police Gunfire DA: Shots That Killed Young Girl At DelCo Football Game Most Likely Came From Police Gunfire
DA: Shots That Killed Young Girl At DelCo Football Game Most Likely Came From Police Gunfire The shots that killed a young girl at a high school football game in Delaware County Friday night most likely came from responsive police gunfire, authorities said. The incident reportedly began with gunshots in the 900 block of Coates Street. That gunfire included a shot in the direction of three Sharon Hill police officers monitoring the crowd exiting the Academy Park High School football stadium, which struck and injured a civilian, DA Jack Stollsteimer said in a statement released Thursday afternoon. In response to the gunfire, the officers discharged their guns.  "…

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by Nicole Acosta