Carl Joseph Burgess

In the late hours of a spring evening in South Philadelphia, Carl Joseph Burgess, a 35-year-old man, was fatally shot. The incident occurred on May 30, 2013, on the same block where he resided on Ringgold Street near Tasker. Burgess was struck multiple times in the stomach and buttocks around 10:40 p.m. He was rushed to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 11:00 p.m. A second man, who was 22 years old at the time, was also wounded in the shoo ...

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