PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia mother is searching for answers after her teenage son was shot and killed while walking home from school Monday afternoon in North Philadelphia.
Officers from the Philadelphia Police Department were called to the 2200 block of North 15th Street just before 3 p.m. for reports of a shooting.
Philadelphia Police Captain John Walker told reporters a 15-year-old student, later identified as Juan "J.R." Carlos Robles-Corona, had just left Dr.
Tanner G. Duckrey School when he was approached by at least one person who shot him three times in the torso.Officers drove the Robles-Corona to Temple University Hospital where died, according to police.Juan Carlos Robles-Corona, who went by "J.R.", was shot and killed in North Philadelphia. "To ambush my son and kill him like that and then leave him in the street like garbage he didn’t deserve that.