July 26, 2007 edition


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COVER STORY:

A mother’s grief

Bette Clark says she’s immeasurably grateful for the emotional and tangible support given her by family, friends and neighbors after the murder of her 15-year-old son two weeks ago.
But not everyone is lending a helping hand to the grief-stricken single mother from Tacony.
In keeping with a growing trend for city homicide cases, police are having a tough time finding cooperative witnesses to the July 13 shooting in which Timothy Clark, of the 6800 block of Vandike St., and a family friend, Damien Holloway, 27, were wounded fatally in the head.

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EDITORIAL

Nothing to fear?

Bette Clark is right. As you read of the carnage and the city’s rocketing homicide rate, it seems all this sadness occurs in North Philly and West Philly, and that it’ll never come to the doorstep of your modest Tacony rowhome.
Her distress is understandable. She buried her 15-year-old son Timothy, shot and killed on July 13 as he returned from a local convenience store. Others will read her story with sorrow but find solace in the belief that they won’t feel such pain, just as she’d read the stories of others and held tight to that same solace . . .

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