Man convicted of shooting, killing Temple student Sam Collington in 2021

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Man convicted of shooting, killing Temple student Sam Collington in 2021
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Latif Williams, 19, was found guilty in the murder of 21-year-old Samuel Collington in November 2021.

Collington, a Delaware County native, was shot in the chest outside his college apartment on the 2200 block of North Park Avenue in November 2021.

His mother, Molly Collington, said her son had just returned to North Philadelphia from his Delaware County home with clean laundry following Thanksgiving weekend.She called her son's murder a"horrible injustice" and a"travesty like you have no idea" during an interview with NBC10. She also said she'll do anything to bring the person responsible to justice.

Collington was a senior political science student at Temple, the university said. He was set to graduate in the spring of 2022 from the College of Liberal Arts.“We are encouraged by an arrest of a suspect in the death of Sam Collington," Temple said in a statement."It is our hope that this is the start of healing for his family and the Temple community. Gun violence is an epidemic; it’s a complex, national issue plaguing both the country and Philadelphia.

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