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Seth Higgins: People will demand order Seth Higgins October 21, 2025 October 20, 2025

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On Saturday evening, a homeless man caused a disturbance at a Center City IHOP in Philadelphia. As the man was being escorted from the restaurant, he spat on Yahaira Melendez, a security guard. She responded by pulling out her pistol and shooting him in the head. Thirty-eight-year-old Melendez is now facing murder charges .

A month before this incident, John Kelly, a homeless man known for harassing people outside the Center City 7-Eleven at 12th and Chestnut, got into an altercation with his girlfriend. Lauren Jardine, an armed bystander, intervened. In the ensuing struggle, Kelly wrestled Jardine’s pistol fr

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