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Eric Robinson, 27, Consummate Caregiver Who Was Saving for the Future
Eric Robinson was nicknamed “Wrecker Hess” as a kid because he barreled through his grandmother’s bedroom like a Hess Truck. He would emerge stomping around in her size 12 high heels, a silky nightgown slipping off his shoulders, wearing underwear on his head like a fashionable bonnet. “Look, Nana!” he announced. Navella Bassette would bust […]
Wayne Elliss Jr., 22: More than 20 years later, his family still awaits justice
With his red hair and light eyes, Wayne Francis Elliss Jr.’s Irish heritage was obvious. And he was proud of it. “He thought he came from Dublin,” his aunt Dawn Squares-Adams said, laughing. “He was all about being Irish.” Wayne graduated from North Catholic High School in 1998, and his daughter Haley was born that […]
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Every month, we create a placeholder webpage for each person murdered in Philadelphia. Our hope is to elevate these pages into fully written stories with photos that show who each victim was as a person. Through storytelling, we're shining a light on the human toll of gun violence in Philadelphia.