Detectives tell Action News that someone shot the person near the concourse at 15th and JFK.
Officers found the victim in a stairway at around 2 a.m.
The victim died a short time later at a local hospital. Right now, police are looking for the shooter.
SEPTA officials say, the investigation will not affect the morning commute.
I knew 15th and JFK was the address of the buildings where I work, but either I wasn't really awake or didn't really think twice about it. It hit me when I got off the train and was walking through the Suburban Station underground and heard this exchange:
Homeless Dude who holds the door for people at Dunkin Donuts: "Man, I'm a double you up."
Other dude: (inaudible)
Homeless Dude: "Some guy got killed down here last night, man. Yeah, I was down here when it happened."
Now, I know this might sound callous, but being in Center City and commuting to the 'burbs each day is a little like living in a bubble within the City of Philadelphia. When you hear about "the killin's" as Milton Street put it so eloquently a couple weeks ago, it's on the radio, it's on TV, it's in the newspapers, but it's not a common topic of conversation outside your workplace. In fact, it still seems like it's happening in another area. Hell, look at this map from the Inquirer that maps the incidents in the city from 2006. Up until now, these shootings HAVE been happening somewhere else -- there are dozens of blocks that make up that blank area that represents where I've been going to work every day for the past six months.
But today, some dude was shot and killed in a spot I walk through every day, six hours before I walked through there. And while it might still seem to be some sort of surreal, alien issue to me that I only hear about on the news, to the folks who can't just hop on a train out of town every day at 5PM it's a fact of life.
