PHILADELPHIA (February 20, 2024) – Following a one-day trial, Latif Williams on Tuesday was convicted of the 2021 murder of Temple University student Samuel Collington near campus. The Hon. J. Scott O’Keefe on Tuesday found Williams (DOB: 11/12/2004) guilty of Third Degree Murder,...
PHILADELPHIA (February 14, 2024) — District Attorney Larry Krasner and the Philadelphia Foundation gathered at the West Kensington Ministry on Wednesday to announce the re-opening of the application process for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Violence Prevention Grant...
PHILADELPHIA (February 8, 2024) – District Attorney Larry Krasner on Thursday announced the conviction of Rodney Watkins (DOB: 10/11/1968) for assaulting six children he was able to access by founding a traveling youth skateboarding team called Powerfulnailya. Watkins was arrested and charged...
PHILADELPHIA (February 8, 2024) – Prosecutors with the District Attorney’s Gun Violence Task Force on Thursday announced the conviction of a motorcyclist who violently threatened a woman with young children inside her car during an unauthorized motor “meet-up.” The shocking incident in...
PHILADELPHIA (February 5, 2024) – The District Attorney’s Office Conviction Integrity Unit on Monday secured the exoneration of Harold Staten for a 1984 North Philadelphia house fire in which one man was killed and three others were injured. As of today, the administration of District Attorney...
PHILADELPHIA (January 22, 2024) — District Attorney Larry Krasner and members of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Homicide and Non-Fatal Shootings Unit announced on Monday that Myzeh Ross (DOB 4/29/2002) was found guilty of three counts of Third Degree Murder and related...
PHILADELPHIA (January 12, 2024) — District Attorney Larry Krasner and the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Gun Violence Task Force (GVTF) on Friday announced criminal charges against two male suspects for their roles in a mass shooting committed in the city’s Kensington...
PHILADELPHIA (January 11, 2024) – District Attorney Larry Krasner on Thursday issued the following statement on the appointment of Philadelphia Police Department Deputy Commissioner Pedro Rosario:“The attorneys and other professionals of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s...
PHILADELPHIA (January 11, 2024) – The Philadelphia District Attorney on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Attorney General to block implementation of Act 40, an unprecedented assault on a locally elected official’s authority and on the rights of voters in the most populous...
PHILADELPHIA (January 8, 2024) — District Attorney Larry Krasner and the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Gun Violence Task Force (GVTF) on Monday announced that Philadelphia’s Thirty-Second Investigating Grand Jury has recommended charges against James Adams (DOB...