Donte Jones

In the late hours of an April night in 2008, tragedy struck in the East Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia. Twenty-year-old Donte Jones was on Woodlawn Avenue, not far from his home on Jane Street, when his life was abruptly cut short. Police, responding to a call about a person with a gun at 10:41 p.m., discovered Jones lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to his back. He was rushed to Albert Einstein Medical Center, but his injury proved to be fatal, and he was pronounced dead at 11:1 ...

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