An 18-year-old male was shot in the back near the 1700 block of North Broad Street Tuesday following his high school’s graduation ceremony.

Temple tested TU-Alert, its emergency alert system, on Friday, May 9. Students who have registered with the system received a text message, phone call and e-mail explaining that the message was only a test.
On Tuesday, May 13, shots were fired at 15th and Norris streets. No one got a TU-Alert message.
The shooting occurred around 11:30 […]

Read full coverage of the shooting here.
This isn’t the first time Philadelphia Police have been after shooting suspect Marshall Thomas.
Thomas was arrested in June 2007 on nine separate charges, including carrying firearms in public and recklessly endangering another person, according to a court docket.
All charges were dropped, however, in October 2007.
Police are still searching for […]

Read the full report here.
Read the criminal history of suspect Marshall Thomas here.
Temple has released a statement about last night’s shooting at 15th and Norris streets.
The statement, sent through e-mail by Vice President of Operations William Bergman, addresses Temple’s decision not to use the TU-Alert system to notify students, faculty and staff about the incident.
“Because […]

A 19-year-old non-Temple female was shot in the chest late Tuesday night at 15th and Norris streets.