Francisco Bland

On a bright evening in August 2012, the sounds of everyday life in a Southwest Philadelphia neighborhood were shattered by gunfire. Responding to a call at 6:17 p.m., police arrived at Edgewood Street near Springfield Avenue to a grim scene. There, lying on the pavement, was 52-year-old Francisco Bland, a male resident of the nearby 6000 block of Trinity Street. He was suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his head, face, neck, and upper torso. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene jus ...

Murders in Philadelphia