Fox 29, a local news station, reported that “grave diggers at Friends Southwestern Burial Ground in Upper Darby can barely keep up with demand.” Fox 29 also noted that cemetery officials said they are “literally running out of room for burial plots.”
Placed in Delaware County, the cemetery is the ultimate resting place of many of Mustafa Ali’s family and close friends who died due to violent gun crimes.
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Ali explained to Fox 29 that many of the victims are minors, stating, “It’s a lot of 15, 16, 17-year-olds out here, people who didn’t even live to see 18.”
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Two men were murdered in a shooting this year while driving in a funeral procession on their way to Friends Southwestern to honor the life of yet another shooting victim.
The city has experienced a whopping 1,193 nonfatal and 313 fatal shootings between the beginning of 2022 and August 18. The Office of the Controller reported that ten percent of these shootings were executed by those younger than the age of 18.
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Over 340 homicides have occurred in Philadelphia this year, according to the most recent figures from the Philadelphia Police Department. This figure is presently outpacing the historically deadly 2021, which saw 562 fatalities.
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Homicides are now up 39 percent nationally in 2022 as compared to 2019.
Meanwhile, like other grieving parents across Michigan, Antionette Evans announced she is still groping for answers in the shooting of her 16-year-old son.
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“It is unbearable, just unbearable. Some days I don’t even want to come out of my room,” Evans stated last week as she fought back the tears in her living room. Her son Ja’Juan Webb has killed on July 4, only blocks from home. Police arrested a suspect in Georgia four days later.
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The boy’s death marked the fourth fatal shooting of a Grand Rapids teenager this year and added to a bleak surge in violent crime plaguing some Michigan cities. As theories abound on the cause, police, prosecutors, politicians, and business leaders scramble to find effective solutions.
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In the first seven months of 2022, Grand Rapids registered 3,363 crimes, including 761 assaults and 15 homicides ─ all above averages for the last three years.
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In Oakland County, there were 26 homicides in the first six months of 2022, double the tally for the very period last year. There have been 10 homicides this year in Pontiac alone. Four of the county victims were children aged 4, 6, 7 and 16.
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