Daily News | What to know about the Fanta Bility shooting
Here are some of the facts of the case:Fanta was the daughter of immigrants from West Africa, who moved to Delaware County in 2004, fleeing the civil war in their native Liberia. Her loved onesand dance and shared everything she had with her friends and family.
On August 27, 2021, Fanta joined her mother and their extended family on a trip to Academy Park High School, where they planned to watch her older sister Mawatta perform for the first time as a cheerleader. The school’s football team was playing Pennsbury in a pre-season exhibition game.Three Sharon Hill Police officers assigned to monitor the crowd leaving the stadium after the gamethat had stopped abruptly in front of them, according to investigators.
Police said the officers believed at the time that the car was the source of the gunfire, and that it had been aimed at them. They fired 25 shots at the vehicle, and some of the bullets flew past it and struck four people in the crowd, including Fanta.A grand jury was impaneled to investigate the shooting. Though the three officers declined to testify, their colleagues did, and said the officers’ initial belief about the shooting was mistaken.
However, amid public outcry, those charges were withdrawn and replaced with aggravated assault. Strand pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 32 to 64 months in state prison. Ford is on the run after escaping a youth detention facility in western Pennsylvania. That same day, the three former officers were charged with manslaughter, reckless endangerment and related crimes, as recommended by the grand jury.just days after criminal charges were filed against them.Delaware County Court Judge Margaret Amoroso is expected to sentence the three officers later this year after they pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 counts each of aggravated assault.
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