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‘Look at all the hurt’ as Philadelphia’s homicides climb and more children are shot and killed | Helen Ubiñas

Children in this city keep getting shot, and their worlds keep shrinking.

Ramone Harris picks up his son Sekani Brown-Harris from Pee Wee Prep Educational Center, which provides childcare and academic enrichment programs for school-age children, and is on the same block as a triple shooting that occurred at 56th and Vine Streets, in West Philadelphia, July 21, 2021. .
Ramone Harris picks up his son Sekani Brown-Harris from Pee Wee Prep Educational Center, which provides childcare and academic enrichment programs for school-age children, and is on the same block as a triple shooting that occurred at 56th and Vine Streets, in West Philadelphia, July 21, 2021. .Read moreJESSICA GRIFFIN / Staff Photographer