{"id":266330,"date":"2026-08-16T08:52:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T08:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266330\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T08:52:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T08:52:40","slug":"north-philadelphia-vigil-held-after-deadly-double-shooting-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266330\/","title":{"rendered":"North Philadelphia vigil held after deadly double shooting \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

City leaders and community members gathered Saturday for a vigil honoring two victims of a shooting that left one of them dead in North Philadelphia earlier this week.<\/a><\/p>\n

The vigil comes three days after police identified Shariff Perry as the suspect wanted in the Aug. 9 double shooting <\/a>on North 24th Street that killed Michelle Wilson, 61, and injured her 67-year-old husband.<\/p>\n

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According to Philadelphia Police Inspector D.F. Pace, the incident unfolded late Sunday at about 11:49 p.m. on the 2800 block of North 24th Street, when officers responded to a report of a person with a gun.<\/p>\n

When they arrived, first responders found Wilson and her husband suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, officials said. Wilson had been shot in her neck and back and, police said, the man was shot in his buttocks.<\/p>\n

The victims were taken to a nearby hospital, where Wilson died.<\/p>\n

Police said both victims were shot outside of their home.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner attended the vigil after receiving an invitation, he said: \u201cI always think it\u2019s important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Krasner said the suspect was not yet in custody, but his office was working with law enforcement to support the investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have confidence that we are actually going to see the responsible individuals in custody facing a fair trial and getting the consequence that they will deserve,\u201d Krasner said.<\/p>\n

Asked about a motive for the shooting, the District Attorney specifically mentioned a report from the Philadelphia Inquirer, which cited law enforcement sources who said the shooting may have been retaliation for a different homicide.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to confirm exactly what we know because it\u2019s a very active investigation,\u201d Krasner said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always wrong, but it\u2019s even more upsetting when it\u2019s innocent people who are somehow being retaliated against for something they didn\u2019t do. It\u2019s just awful,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not saying that\u2019s correct or incorrect, I\u2019m just saying there has been reporting around it, and it\u2019s a very active investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Krasner urged the community to come forward with any information they may know.<\/p>\n

Neighbors and friends spoke at the vigil as well. Among them was Keith Dial, who said he had known Wilson since the second grade.<\/p>\n

“The whole block is grieving now, and so that\u2019s why we\u2019re here,” Dial said. “Me and her [were] in the second grade together. She sat right next to me. I\u2019ve been knowing her all my life. Beautiful person. She recently retired from the Philadelphia Water Department. So it hurts deep.”<\/p>\n

Surveillance video obtained by NBC10 shows the moment a man wearing a baseball cap and a medical mask walked towards the scene. In the video, he appears to produce, what looks like, a handgun from a bag before moving it to the inside of his coat as he walks along the sidewalk.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNBC10 has obtained surveillance video that caught a man as he appears to put a handgun in his coat moments prior to when a woman was killed and a man hurt when shots were fired at the married couple, in their 60s, during an incident that happened on the 2800 block of North 24th Street overnight.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

An investigation has since identified Perry as the suspect and he has been charged with murder and related offenses, police said.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy Philadelphia Police DepartmentCourtesy Philadelphia Police Department<\/p>\n

Shariff Perry<\/p>\n

As of early Saturday, he had not been apprehended.<\/p>\n

Anyone with any information on Perry’s whereabouts is urged to contact the Philadelphia Police Department at 215-686-3334 or 215-686-TIPS (8477) or anonymously\u00a0online here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Gun Violence Concerns<\/p>\n

According to Philadelphia crime statistics, there have been 111 homicides so far in 2026, which is down 21% from this point in 2025. <\/p>\n

But to residents of North Philadelphia at the vigil on Saturday, the improvement was not enough and more needed to be done.<\/p>\n

“We thought that this would be a good opportunity to come together, to really emphasize to the community as well as to the city officials, the need for more police presence, the need for more resources to be, you know, disseminated amongst our communities,” said Marvina Williams. <\/p>\n

Councilmember Cindy Bass told attendees of the vigil that the city’s work continues to try to reduce gun violence. <\/p>\n

“We have only yet gotten started with needs to happen for our communities to be safe and feel safe,” she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City leaders and community members gathered Saturday for a vigil honoring two victims of a shooting that left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-266330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266330","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=266330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}