2 More Men Charged In South Street Shooting

Philadelphia has been in the national media this past week because of a mass shooting that happened this past Saturday night on South Street. Three people died, leaving eleven others shot, and another person seriously injured.

Two men are now facing murder charges and have been arrested in Virginia in the death of two bystanders in last weekend’s shooting in the busy entertainment district of South Street in Philadelphia, officials said Thursday.

The men will be extradited to face charges in Philadelphia and will not be given bail in Saturday night’s shooting on South Street, city officials said at a news conference. The two men Quadir Dukes-Hill, 18, of Drexel Hill, and Nahjee Whittington, 16, of Philadelphia, are both facing murder charges, authorities said. Hill is charged in the death of Alexis Quinn, while Whittington is accused in the death Kristopher Minners, 22.

According to 6ABC.com, Joanne Pescatore, homicide unit chief at the Philadelphia district attorney’s office, said that according to surveillance video, the two men, who are friends and had fled to Virginia together, fired randomly into the crowd in response to hearing gunshots down the block. It did not appear that the men and the victims knew one another.

“It appears that they had guns, took them out and just started randomly firing,” Pescatore said.

South Street, on the south edge of central Philadelphia, is known for its nightlife, including bars, restaurants, and other businesses. Surveillance video from a local business showed scores of people milling about on the sidewalks and in the street, then fleeing as the gunfire broke out.

Police officers were patrolling the area when they heard shots. They found several people with gunshot wounds lying on the sidewalk and in the street and began to render aid, authorities have said.

This recent mass shooting hits close to home for some of us because we travel to Philly, but there has been a conscious effort by me to not hang around South Street, especially at night because most of the time men just stand around looking for trouble which has to stop.

I think I speak for all the locals who frequent South Street that enough is enough of the violence on that street.