A street cleaning team in West Philadelphia were horrified to discover the badly decomposed remains of a child in a duffel bag
00:38, 19 Mar 2024
A sanitation team made a horrifying discovery that will now likely result in a manhunt in West Philadelphia.
The badly decomposed body of a small child was pulled from a duffel bag by crews who were cleaning a site on Monday. The child was between 2 to 4 years old, according to authorities, but "has been there for a long time" so it will be a process to identify the child.
An investigation is ongoing. Not only will authorities have to work to identify the child, but also the manner of death. The body was found on the 600 block of North 38th Street, just before 10 a.m. This was a tragedy for the neighbourhood, and community members were quick to speak out about the death. "That makes no sense like no child deserves that," Ariel Williams told NYC Philadelphia, She drove by the area, and seeing a shocked sanitation worker, she decided to stop and ask what was going on.
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“It's sad. You know how people say stuff like this doesn’t happen in their neighborhood but stuff like this does not happen. We’ve never had something like this happen in this area," Yvette Patrick, a neighbour, said. "It's sad like my condolences to the child."
"I just pray they find out who he is, where he belongs to and can bury him properly," Patrick continued. The Mantua section is in western Philadelphia, near the Schuylkill River. It is home to the Philadelphia Zoo and is near the campus of Drexel University.
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Just a few days ago in Pennsylvania, in an entirely separate case the victims of the heinous shooting that rocked a community in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, killing three and severely injuring a fourth, have been identified. Police had to work for hours to apprehend the alleged killer after he barricaded himself inside a home with hostages.
The victims were named as his 52-year-old stepmother, Karen Gordon, his 13-year-old sister, Kera, 25-year-old Taylor Daniel, who was the mother of his two children, and Daniel's mother, who was assaulted when he struck her with the butt of his AR-15-style assault rifle, according to Bucks County District Attorney Jen Schorn, who spoke at a press conference on Saturday afternoon.
Andre Gordon, 26, entered a home on Viewpoint Lane in Levittown, Pennsylvania, a town just 26 miles northeast of Philadelphia along the New Jersey border, across the river from Trenton, at approximately 8.52am where he shot and killed his 52-year-old stepmom Karen and his 13-year-old sister Kera while three other family members hid.
A few minutes later, at 9.01am, he shot and killed 25-year-old Daniel, the mother of his children, after assaulting her mother. Two minors watched as Gordon killed their mother and assaulted their grandmother.
The, Gordon stole a gray Honda CRV and drove it to a home on the 100 block of Miller Street in Trenton, where he took several hostages and barricaded himself in just before 12.30pm as the police entered a standoff with him.