Ellie Rushing
Reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer
Floridian turned Philadelphian. Covering criminal justice issues and gun violence for @Phillyinquirer. DM or email [email protected]. She/her.
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4 days ago |
sacbee.com | Ellie Rushing
PHILADELPHIA - For the last three decades, the Rev. Damone Jones has worked to build relationships with Philadelphia's most troubled children, the teens he says "typically nobody else loves": those charged with murder. Several days per week, the West Philadelphia pastor visits the young men under 18 who are held in a city jail, and offers them guidance and support.
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1 week ago |
inquirer.com | Ellie Rushing
Investigators now believe five guns were fired into the crowd gathered at Lemon Hill on the night of Memorial Day in a shooting that left two people dead and nine others wounded. Deputy Police Commissioner Frank Vanore said ballistic testing shows that the shooters, standing just adjacent to the Lemon Hill Mansion in Fairmount Park, used five weapons to fire dozens of shots into a group of young people around 10:30 p.m. Monday.
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1 week ago |
inquirer.com | Ellie Rushing
In the end, Mark Dial’s own testimony helped convict him of voluntary manslaughter for killing Eddie Irizarry in 2023, the foreman of the jury that delivered the verdict said in an interview Tuesday. The former Philadelphia police officer took the stand on the third day of his trial, charged with third-degree murder for shooting Irizarry six times during a botched traffic stop in Kensington, and spoke of what he said he saw as he ran around the front of Irizarry’s car the afternoon of Aug.
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1 week ago |
inquirer.com | Ximena Conde |Ellie Rushing
A man police believe was a serial robber was fatally shot by a bystander early Tuesday morning behind a Dunkin’ in Mayfair, according to a law enforcement source.
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1 week ago |
inquirer.com | Ellie Rushing
For the last three decades, the Rev. Damone Jones has worked to build relationships with Philadelphia’s most troubled children, the teens he says “typically nobody else loves”: those charged with murder. Several days per week, the West Philadelphia pastor visits the young men under 18 who are held in a city jail, and offers them guidance and support.
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The city’s Kensington Wellness Court has been placed on hold amid judges’ mounting frustration with the city officials tasked with overseeing the program. A judge who presides over the cases called city leaders "fake." https://t.co/Ewue22CRT2
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