In the afternoon hours of a January day in Southwest Philadelphia, a life was tragically cut short. Seventeen-year-old Christopher Braxton, a Black/African American male and a senior at Bartram High School, was walking home from school on January 26, 2022, a routine he had likely followed countless times before. But on this day, shortly before 3 p.m., violence shattered the afternoon calm on the 2300 block of South 66th Street.
Just moments after dismissal, a single gunshot rang out, stri
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