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Just FYI I had just crossed the corner of Sansom Street when these shots were fired. It sounded like cannon fire, which is why I wasn't certain it was gunfire. Officer Santiago (later shot) was in front of me with a street work crew. He was reacting and approaching the corner as some young people came out of Sansom Street and told him there was a "shooting in the street". I kept going as I am not impervious to a stray bullet.

The Center City area is pretty safe, but with Mayor Street there hasd been an increase in street people, and with violence escalating in the city it was only a matter of time before a Center City shooting took place. It really is quite a lesson to see the effects of bad government management in a place you have worked for years.