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The infamous Homicide Tally currently stands at 108. Forty-two-year-old Charles Baldwin became the latest victim in West Philly Friday night, when he was hit in the face with a stray bullet. Baldwin was getting dressed for work inside his home on Pine Street near 58th, a couple blocks away from the headquarters of the 18th District and Southwest Detectives.
While Baldwin's murder might seem on the surface to be just the latest on a list that will likely grow much, much longer as the year progresses, the reality hit home to a young lady who also lives in West Philly. 
Cierra Robbins, 21, said she lives just two blocks away from the scene of Baldwin's slaying. She watches the news every night and hears the eternal drumbeat of the rising murder rate in her own neighborhood. While most people her age are at a loss for words -- or worse yet, don't even care -- Robbins opted to write a poem, "What happens when it gets hot?"
"What happens when it gets hot?
Will someone else get shot with too many people on the block?
What happens when it gets hot?
January through April
over 100 already popped
Is life that meaningless that we can take it away?
They're not people, they're killers
cold blooded everyday.
Do i have to watch my little siblings
with bulletproff vests
or do i need protection to lay down & rest?"
Comments (33)
Damn, Kate. I can't believe you're going to leave us in your dust. Where's the brotherly love?
Posted by david | April 11, 2007 10:49 PM
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Posted by bfelony | April 19, 2007 12:46 AM
Posted on April 19, 2007 00:46
Yo b felony your an idiot,The liberal news in philadelphia might care if you get killed,But just know, absolutely nobody else does and in the suburbs they could care even less.
Posted by random hero | April 20, 2007 8:39 PM
Posted on April 20, 2007 20:39
I was born and raised in Illadelph. I really saddens me to see the change in our youth. 10 years ago I was the youth and we simply did things different it is a sadsad day when I come home to visit and have to worry about being shot for giving someone the wrong look, or just because they are having a bad day. I love Philly but I have never been so happy to leave somewhere in my life. The young people there have a disrespect for life so vile and digusting it makes me weep on the inside!!!!!!!!
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