‘Stop Killing Our Community’: Philly Officials Address Gun Violence Epidemic as Nearly 500 People are Murdered

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Eight people were injured in a Feb. 17 shooting near Olney Transportation Center in Philadelphia.
Kimberly Paynter

With six weeks still left in the year, Philadelphia is close to matching the highest number of homicides it’s ever recorded in a one-year period. In 1990, Philadelphia lost 500 people to homicides, and the city is just under that number today. WHYY’s Tom MacDonald has more.

(Original air-date: 11/26/21)

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WHYY reporter Tom MacDonald is a lifelong Philadelphia-area resident who has worked in the region since the mid-1980s. Tom started in commercial radio covering the MOVE standoff with police for WFIL-AM. He was also City Hall Bureau Chief, covering government and politics for more than a decade, for WWDB-FM.