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On Wednesday night, story from the Inquirer:
…near Ditman and Pratt Streets in East Frankford. The victim, an unidentified male, was shot in the head and neck, and pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. No other details were immediately available
From the Daily News today reporting on a murder on Wednesday October 17th:
Shortly after 6:10 p.m., a 68-year-old man was stabbed in the chest at a halfway house in the 4400 block of Waln Street, East Frankford. He was pronounced dead a short time later.
Police identified him this morning as Robert Kitchen, who lived at the same address.
They weren’t able to release, however, the name of the 25-year-old man who was taken into custody. Police said both men were residents in the house and got into an argument in the living room.
This version from NBC10 is slightly different:
Police said a fatal stabbing was reported Wednesday night outside a home for mentally-challenged men in the Frankford section of the Philadelphia.
It looks like this was:
Northeast Community Center For Lth-Mental Retardtn – Branches, Adult Adjustment Program Philadelphia 19102Unity Waln Sts
The reports on the local news were so bad i decided not to post anything about it. Then I noticed today over on Phillyblog some comments that sounded likely to be true so here they are:
Yesterday the Daily News had a more informative piece on the overall problem. Here it is for as long as it is available.
The Northeast Times has a good article on the Northeast Youth Curfew Center located at the FGM on Griscom Street. I’m not sure why people think their kids should be out all night. In times like this, it’s only asking for trouble.
Thanks to our friends at Hallwatch.org, who are watching those folks down at City Hall, the text of a bill recently introduced and sponsored by the entire City Council is available online. It proposes to give tax credits to employers who hire prisoners released from Philadelphia prisons. This is the link thanks to Ed Goppelt. We would hope it would give some incentive to some of our Frankford citizens who have serve time to stay out of jail.
