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Number9Dream Donating Member (574 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-19-07 03:35 PM
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Five shootings a day in Philly
All you Philly DUers, please stay safe... don't take your safety for granted.

http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/state/all-a12_shootingsfeb19,0,40645.story

<snip> The 2,004 shooting victims last year marked an increase of 31 percent over the 1,528 recorded in 2001, the earliest year for which the police department provided statistics.

<snip> Police last year confiscated 5,386 guns, a 7 percent increase over the previous year, according to a city Web site for the Operation Safer Streets crime-reduction effort.

<snip> One of last year's victims was Khamphay Salienkham, 37, a construction worker confronted by four men as he was taking out the trash on Aug. 23 in South Philadelphia. Beaten and shot three times, he spent two weeks in the hospital and then moved to his sister's Lancaster County home.
"I had to get away," Salienkham said. He said he still comes to Philadelphia to visit family members, but does not stay long. "I'm scared," he said.

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