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Chris Francis, 21, Wonderful Father to a Son He Didn’t Bear
As a young man, Chris Francis fell in love with a girl. That girl was a mother to a baby. And although Brandon, the child of his girlfriend, Erin, was not biologically his, he considered the boy his own. He lived and breathed for that child. “I think the fact that he raised the son […]
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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.