Philadelphia teen charged in four homicides, including man killed on prison grounds
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA A Philadelphia teenager has been charged in four homicides, including a Christmas Eve slaying caught live on social media and what authorities believe was the mistaken-identity killing of a man gunned down on prison grounds shortly after he was released on bail.
Police said the 16-year-old had been arrested March 20 and charged in the Dec. 24 killing of 20-year-old Dyewou Nyshawn Scruggs, who was found with multiple gunshots on a west Philadelphia street and died less than 15 minutes before Christmas Day.
The following day, he was charged in a March 11 quadruple shooting in west Philadelphia that had claimed the lives of 24-year-old Naquon Smith and 16-year-old Tamir Brown and critically wounded two 19-year-old men.
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Philadelphia Prison Shooting: 20-year-old man found shot and killed outside Curran-Fromhold Correction Facility 1 hour after being released, police say
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Some Philly jail locks can be easily disabled, staff warn, as violence continues Samantha Melamed, The Philadelphia Inquirer
On March 12, two prisoners at the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center “breached” their cell doors and they and their cellmates all dived into a brawl that resulted in minor injuries, according to an internal report obtained by The Inquirer. Staff pepper-sprayed them and returned them to their cells where one of the men broke out of his cell again, an hour later, to fight a different prisoner.
The lock mechanism was one of many concerns cited by staff, prisoners, and advocates at a heated City Council hearing Monday regarding the state of the city jails in the pandemic. They also warned of deteriorating building conditions, inadequate staffing, scant protections against the spread of the coronavirus, and a lack of contact tracing when staff are infected all as the jail population has risen to its highest point since the pand