84-year-old man dies in house fire in Kensington, police say
An 84-year-old man was killed in a house fire in Philadelphia's Kensington section on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
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An 84-year-old man was killed in a house fire in Philadelphia's Kensington section on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
Police said the 84-year-old man was found inside the house on the first floor unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at 1:42 p.m., according to police.
A 39-year-old man is accused of pulling up to a fight on a Kensington street, firing shots and later shooting a woman inside a home Friday afternoon, Philadelphia police said.
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Philadelphia Police on Monday announced their long-awaited plans to clean up Kensington, an area in the city notorious for being one of the largest open-air drug markets in the United States.
Aside from the highly-publicized open drug use and drug sales that have long plagued the neighborhood, police note it as one of the most violent in the city. Deputy Commissioner Pedro Rosario, who heads the department's Kensington Initiative, said "Consistently this area has been number one in the city of Philadelphia with shooting victims and homicides."
In a press conference Monday, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said 75 men and women from the Philadelphia Police Academy will be deployed to the Kensington area following their June 17 graduation. The new deployment of officers will address the area's drug corners and the activity that they believe is causing much of the violence.
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Philadelphia Police Department's newest graduating class of officers will be deployed to the city's Kensington neighborhood.
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