"Founded shooting"
The University of Pennsylvania has an "Emergency Notification System", to which I subscribe, that "enables the University to quickly notify the Penn and surrounding Philadelphia community of critical information during significant emergencies or dangerous situations involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus". Early this morning I got a couple of messages from this system. The first one:
Police Activity in the area of 38 & spruce. Police have secured the scene. Please avoid the area.
And an update:
38th street continues to remain closed as Penn and Philadelphia Police continue to investigate a founded shooting in the area.
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