The Triangle and the Philadelphia Inquirer have reported that a man was shot at 35th and Haverford Avenue on Thursday morning. Here is the Inquirer blurb:

“At 1:15 a.m., Ronald Saunders, 20, of the 500 block of North 35th Street in West Philadelphia, was shot in the neck while outside his home. Police said he was pronounced dead at the scene. There was no arrest or motive.”

35th Street between Spring Garden Street and Haverford Avenue is a mostly student block, however, the article implies that Ronald did live on the same block, and there is a bar called the Easy Corner right where the police tape and memorial with teddy bears and flowers was set up.

It has been a long debate since I have been at Drexel about what the university’s responsibility is to protect its students living off campus. The current “Crime Reporting Boundary”, which can be seen on a map on DPS’s website, does not include much north of Baring Street, other than Drexel’s garage on Spring Garden Street. However, in their crime they do report everything that is called into them, regardless of its location. The DPS patrol zone does extend to Spring Garden Street, and DPS rents Philadelphia Police to patrol the campus only at night.

Sources: City Briefs, Five in Phila slain in a Night, DPS
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