Former Stoneleigh Fellow and current Board Member Kevin Bethel was featured by The Philadelphia Inquirer in a story about his career before being selected as the city’s next police commissioner.
For a moment, on a mild June evening long ago, a narrow street in South Philadelphia filled with the sound of innocence, the voices of children playing.
Then came gunshots and screams.
A 13-year-old boy and an 18-year-old man had gotten into a fight, and shot at each other on Sigel Street near 22nd. A stray bullet found an even younger victim, 4-year-old Nashay Little. The bullet tore through an artery in the girl’s thigh. She was fortunate to survive.
