Eight Philadelphia high school students were shot at a transit bus stop in the city’s northeast. Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said three gunmen got out of a vehicle near a Dunkin’ store and opened fire as students from Northeast High School were waiting for a bus, WPVI reported. A 16-year-old boy was shot nine times …
Two teenage Philadelphia boys have been charged as adults for their involvement in a shooting that left 16-year-old boy critically wounded with a gunshot to the head. The two boys, 17 and 16, face a number of charges that could be upgraded if their victim dies. The shooting took place Thursday night on a transit …
Riders on a Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority train reportedly watched and did nothing as a man ripped the clothes off a woman and raped her Wednesday night. A SEPTA employee noticed the attack and called police, who met the train at the 69th Street Transportation Center and arrested Fiston M. Ngoy, 35, WPVI reported. SEPTA …
Philadelphia’s city transit system SEPTA said Friday it would no longer enforce a policy requiring passengers to wear a facemask during the coronavirus pandemic after a viral video showed police officers forcibly dragging a man off a bus because he wasn’t wearing one. SEPTA said the incident, which took place Friday morning, was under investigation, …
