In the midst of a violent September in 2009, a month that saw 46 homicides in Philadelphia, 35-year-old Elliot Cartwright, an African-American male, became another victim of the city's escalating gun violence. On the 20th day of that month, Cartwright was fatally shot in the 4800 block of North 11th Street.
The shooting occurred in a neighborhood that had been persistently troubled by violence. Despite the tragic event and the numerous other killings that plagued the city that month, litt
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