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On the night of May 21, 2025, in a home on the 800 block of Brooklyn Street in West Philadelphia, 12-year-old Nashon Thomas, a Black male, lay in bed when a single gunshot shattered the quiet. Officers who answered the 9 p.m. hour call found Nashon Thomas, age 12, unresponsive with a wound to the head and rushed him to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where he was pronounced dead at 9:42 p.m. The scene held a recovered firearm, a grieving family, and questions that would quickly focus on ...Read More
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Nashon Thomas
Male
Black / African American
Philadelphia
PA
2025-05-21
12
Nashon
Thomas
11/16/2025
Forum Posts (2)
I'm really struggling to wrap my head around how a family can find itself in such a tragic situation... ...Read More
09/13/2025
09/13/2025
I can't shake the feeling that this entire situation could have been avoided with proper gun safety ... ...Read More
09/12/2025
09/12/2025
