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PA Bill Number: HB2235

Title: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ...

Description: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ... ...

Last Action: Referred to LABOR AND INDUSTRY

Last Action Date: Apr 25, 2024

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Pennsylvania Self-Defense: Phila.: Store owner fatally shoots robbery suspect :: 01/13/2016

A store owner in Philadelphia's Hawthorne section fatally shot a man who tried to rob the corner shop Monday morning.

Police at a corner store in South Philadelphia where the shop´s owner fatally shot a suspected robber.

Philadelphia police said three men entered Miss Jessie's Stop N Shop on the 900 block of South 12th Street around 8:30 a.m. with a gun and announced a robbery.

The store owner then opened fire, police said.

One of the men was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene at 8:44 a.m. His name was not immediately released.

A second suspect, a 22-year-old man, was taken into custody while the third escaped though was possibly injured.

Police didn't immediately identify the store owner.

Two weapons were recovered at the scene, authorities said.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20160112_Cops__Store_owner_fatally_shoots_robbery_suspect.html