{"id":250696,"date":"2026-07-23T23:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250696\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T23:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:25:16","slug":"philadelphia-anti-violence-nonprofit-leader-rosalind-pichardo-kent-charged-in-knife-attack-on-septa-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250696\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia anti-violence nonprofit leader Rosalind Pichardo-Kent charged in knife attack on SEPTA train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEPTA officials said the founder of Philadelphia anti-violence nonprofit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.operationsaveourcity.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Operation Save Our City<\/a> is the alleged offender in a stabbing on July 17 on a SEPTA train.<\/p>\n<p>According to an incident report, Rosalind Pichardo-Kent was charged with two counts of aggravated assault along with five other assault and harassment related charges. Pichardo-Kent posted bail.<\/p>\n<p>On July 17, SEPTA officials said Transit Police responded to a report of a stabbing on an L, or Market-Frankford Line, train at 8th Street. Police located two women involved in a physical confrontation and both suffering injuries. Both women were taken to local hospitals for treatment, with police detaining the offender.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Philadelphia reached out to Pichardo-Kent about the incident. She referred us to her attorney, who said she had no comment on behalf of her client.<\/p>\n<p>Operation Save Our City runs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.operationsaveourcity.org\/sunshine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sunshine House<\/a> in Kensington, a community hub offering harm-reduction, overdose training and support for people in addiction and homelessness. Earlier this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/man-dog-shot-homeless-kensington\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS News Philadelphia interviewed<\/a> Pichardo-Kent after an apparent targeted shooting at a homeless encampment in Kensington, where one man was injured and a dog was killed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The City of Philadelphia&#8217;s Office of Public Safety confirmed to CBS News Philadelphia that Operation Save Our City received a $20,000 grant in June. The Philadelphia District Attorney&#8217;s Office also previously awarded grants to the nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEPTA officials said the founder of Philadelphia anti-violence nonprofit\u00a0Operation Save Our City is the alleged offender in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6725,69,71,70,2618,2794],"class_list":["post-250696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-nonprofit","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-septa","tag-stabbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}