A 12-year-old boy was shot to death last night in Camden while sitting in a car parked in the Branch Village Public Housing complex. The boy, who has not been identified, was shot multiple times shortly before midnight and died at the scene. It was unclear whether anyone else was in the car or whether the boy was the killer’s intended target. INQUIRER: How Many Bullets Does It Take To Snuff Out A 12-Year-Old? KILLADELPHIA: Holiday Mayhem Raises Murder Toll To 208

Just before 11:30 p.m., police found a man with multiple gunshot wounds in the 2400 block of Morris Street in South Philadelphia, police said.He was pronounced dead at the scene minutes later, according to Officer Beth DiDonato. Terence Foman, 29, lived in the 6200 block of Pine Street in the Cobbs Creek section of the city. Police are looking for motives and suspects in the case, which is the city’s 204th homicide this year, DiDonato said. (Although 206 cases were initially reported as murders, two were later ruled to have occurred in self-defense.) [via the INQUIRER]

“In today’s policing environment, Johnson made a mistake. He hung around too long. You can’t do that anymore. “What went wrong?” asked Gibbons. “Loyalty.” Johnson, Gibbons said, is too loyal to Mayor Street, who insiders say keeps Johnson as a buffer between his two-term administration and negative publicity over crime. Those closest to Johnson hold several more theories: “He creates a lot of controversy,” said C.B. Kimmins, an anti-drug activist and Johnson friend. “It is not for something he is doing. It is for something he is not doing. He is not demonstrative. He is not bravado. People say, ‘He […]