In the East Germantown section of Philadelphia, on what should have been a joyous celebration of his 12th birthday, Laron 'L.J.' Williams Jr., a 12-year-old Black male, was tragically killed. On the afternoon of June 22, 2023, the young boy, known for his big personality and as a jokester, had just left a neighbor's house where he had gone to get lunch. As he crossed the 700 block of East Locust Avenue to return to the home his family had lived in since the 1970s, gunfire erupted. A man with a r
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