City officials and residents who have lost loved ones to street violence began work on Thursday afternoon to portray homicide as a public health epidemic.
A news conference at City Hall featured remarks from Mayor James Kenney, Councilman Kenyatta Johnson, state Sen. Vincent Hughes, and Rodney Muhammad, president of the NAACP Philadelphia branch, and other gun-control advocates, including Mothers In Charge.
Read the full story in The Philadelphia Tribune: City officials portray homicide as public health epidemic