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Someone messed with the evidence at that Frankford Royal Farms shooting

Philly, your Royal Farms is wild

Youse know how I feel about Frankford, right? It's a real neighborhood, got that grind, but sometimes the jawns that go down there just got you shaking your head. Listen, a man gets shot dead inside a Royal Farms on Church Street, and the police are saying it was self-defense. That's already a whole lot to unpack, but then they hit you with the fact that some bystander just walked right up and tampered with the evidence after the fact. Like, who just does that?

### What went down

So, here's the jawn. A 22-year-old man, he’s shot and killed in the Royal Farms, right? Police are saying the dude who pulled the trigger was acting in self-defense. That's a serious claim, and I'm not even gonna hold you, I'm always gonna ask questions when it's about self-defense in these situations. But then, investigators drop the bomb that some other person, just watching this whole thing, messed with the scene.

* A 22-year-old was killed in a Royal Farms in Frankford. * Police believe the shooting was an act of self-defense. * A bystander allegedly tampered with evidence at the scene.

I'm telling you, this is wild. You got people out here getting injured playing pickleball in the Poconos and losing their minds, but in Philly, we got folks just chilling, seeing a whole shooting, and then deciding to get involved in the evidence. That Royal Farms is right there on the 2500 block of Church Street, right off Frankford Avenue. It's a spot where people are just trying to grab a quick wooder ice or a chicken box, not witness a whole crime scene get messed with. That's the jawn, Philly — we don't do fake out here. This kind of stuff just makes you wonder what people are thinking, or nah?

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