Posted on 11/26/2020 5:11:52 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
Khaleaf Sistrunk talked to police about the people who were killing his family and friends. And so he had been marked for death.
In 2018, he told police what he knew about the drive-by killing of his older brother. A year later, he testified as an eyewitness at the trial of the teenager who shot his friend to death as they shopped on South Street on Easter Sunday.
For that, he was branded a “snitch.” And people started shooting at him. Eight times in the last two years, his family said. Mostly in the streets by his South Philadelphia home. In October, a gunman fired at his FedEx delivery truck in Queen Village, missing him, but seriously injuring a coworker.
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LBJ's planning process extended no further than the next election. When he saw that the next election wasn't going to happen no matter how much he cheated (with the means available to him at the time) he quit.
When it’s your life, you figure it out.
Drug gang vengeance follow the drug money that’s why the cities allow all these shootings.
No, he sure the hell did.
His 100 year statement comfirms it.
Yeah, a one-way bus ticket to North Dakota is so-o expensive!
Regards,
Welcome to hell. North philly
I hear North Dakota is wonderful for the homeless in December.
What an incredibly irresponsible article. Why scare the general public from testifying? This may be dramatic journalism, but newspaper editing in the public interest is dead.
Why should he have to remain homeless? He could get a job!
Regards,
And leave his family to die.
I’m sure it’s fun getting a job with no local address.
People are always looking to hire guys living in a van down by the river...
The excerpt posted here of the article does not make it clear. It identifies him only as someone's "son." I'm figuring that if he's an unattached male in his 20s, there is nothing holding him back - nothing preventing him from telling his mother, "I've always wanted to work on a farm in N. Dakota!" and leaving.
I’m sure it’s fun getting a job with no local address.
When I was a young man back in the 1970s, you could become a boarder on the edge of town for $25 / week.
People are always looking to hire guys living in a van down by the river...
In my day, potential employers weren't so choosy. For certain low-wage positions, it was enough if you made a relatively honest impression. Heck, I could have gotten a "gig" bucking bales ("haying") - on a cash basis - any day of the week. Would have sufficed until I got settled.
Regards,
That’s forty to fifty years ago.
It’s not the 70’s anymore.
Enjoy the long weekend.
With respect, Queen Village is many blocks away from City Hall, and not even in what is considered the same neighborhood. QV begins about seven blocks south and seven blocks east of City Hall. About a mile as the crow files, a mile and a half, walking.
Thanks. Too much tryptophan? I’m usually a more careful reader. Tragic situation. His poor mother.
My post was a little confusing because the first shooting was indeed in Queens Village. The perps were after him for a long time. I cant imagine living like that.
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