On November 6, 1948, Louise Moore, a 40-year-old woman from Chester, Pennsylvania, tragically lost her life in a mass shooting incident. The perpetrator, Melvin Collins, also known as "Bad Boy," was a 38-year-old African American man from Exmore, Virginia. Collins had a history of violence and had been imprisoned twice for shootings.
The incident began when Collins barricaded himself in his boarding room at 233 Market Street in Chester. He then leaned out the window and yelled to a group
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