Daily News | ‘The pain is palpable’: Temple officer’s death weighs on community members amid ongoing gun violence
On Saturday night, Alelisa Stephens received a call from her niece, asking if she was okay. There was a shooting on Montgomery Avenue, her niece told her, just a block away from where Stephens works as a residential aide.
Stephens and Ward are just a couple of the many people living and working in the neighborhoods around Temple University. Violence and public safety are always top of mind for these community members, but especially so in the days since Fitzgerald was killed after attempting to stop a carjacking. “I know these blocks, I know these neighbors … their day-to-day reality is not feeling safe in their neighborhoods. That to me is an outrage.”outside of their office just 30 minutes after she spoke with The Inquirer.
“I dont know what else [the police] can do,” said Lynia Lee after picking up her niece from the nearby Alliance Charter School on Tuesday afternoon. And while Lee is worried about reducing gun violence, she doesn’t think that adding more officers to the area would be helpful either.Dr.
“Corinne the human … is desperate for the collective will and desire [to] throw everything at this. After each [shooting] we say enough is enough and never again. When is it enough? Gary Jackson drove from his home in Northeast Philly to pay his respects at the makeshift memorial where Fitzgerald was shot.
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