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A man that officials claim is responsible for a mass shooting during a block party in West Philadelphia last year made his first court appearance on Tuesday.

Amir Jones is charged with three counts of homicide in connection to a gun battle that took the lives of his two brothers and a 23-year-old man as well hurting six other people.

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Jones was arrested in July, 2025, after being on the run for over a year. His attorney said that Jones' family has had a very difficult year.

In court on Tuesday, Oct. 21, they brought in one witness, a homicide detective, who walked everyone through a compilation of Ring surveillance videos of that shooting that happened in July of 2024 in the Carr

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