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Howard Williams, 22, Life of the Party
The first hot day of the season in 2010, Hoffman Street in Point Breeze was the scene of a water fight. Super soakers were blasting, and all the neighbors were outside hoping to beat the heat. “It was like everybody had turned on a fire hose,” Dianne Williams, the mother of Howard Williams, said. “Everybody […]
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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.