In the midst of a violent weekend in Philadelphia, a 29-year-old African-American man named Michael Jay was shot and killed on June 1, 2012. The city was in the grip of a rising tide of homicides, marking the third consecutive year of increasing rates of deadly violence. Jay's death was one of several that weekend, a grim testament to the challenges of gun violence that plagued the city.
The incident that claimed Michael Jay's life was part of a bloody period in Philadelphia's history, wi
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