Daily News | A 15-year-old was held for trial on murder charges in the killing of a West Philly rec center employee
First came the “pop, pop, pop” of the gunshots. Then, Geraldine Fletcher said, she smelled the gunpowder.
It wasn’t until later that Fletcher, 76, would learn the teen was allegedly involved in a shootout that killed her daughter, Tiffany, 41, a rec center employee who was caught in the crossfire.On Wednesday, Fletcher testified as a witness in a preliminary hearing for the teen, Makie Jones, saying he was the person who ran past her. After the hearing — which also featured video evidence and testimony from detectives — Municipal Court Judge Wendy L.
Jones was arrested within a few minutes and just blocks away — not long after he’d run by Fletcher’s mother. Responding officers had quickly started to run after him, and they also found a ghost gun in a nearby trash can.
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