16-year-old boy killed in East Germantown shooting
Late Sunday night, police were called to the 5900 block of Stenton Avenue and found William Honesty fatally wounded.
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A 16-year-old boy was shot to death late Sunday night near Martin Luther King High School in the city’s East Germantown section, police said Monday.
Just before 11:40 p.m., police were called to the 5900 block of Stenton Avenue and found William Honesty with three gunshot wounds to his chest, police said.
Honesty, who lived a few blocks away in West Oak Lane, was pronounced dead at the scene by medics.
Police reported no arrests.
Honesty was not a student at the high school, said Christina Clark, a spokesperson for the School District of Philadelphia.