SHARON HILL, Pa. - Academy Park High School's football team began their season Friday afternoon, a year after 8-year-old Fanta Bility was killed by police gunfire while leaving the football field with her family.Authorities say in late August, Fanta Bility and her family were leaving the Academy Park High School football field among a crowd of fans when a shooting between two young men erupted.
Bullets from that shooting came in the direction of three Sharon Hill Police officers who were monitoring the crowd. The officers returned fire, shooting toward a car they believed was involved in the initial gunfire, striking the car and members of the crowd.
Bility was the only one fatally struck by the officer's bullets, according to officials."I was at that game," Chauncey Billops from Upper Darby said. "There was a lot of fighting in the stands, those neighborhoods don't get along."RELATED COVERAGEOfficers Devon Smith, Sean Dolan, and Brian Devaney were each charged with a total of twelve criminal counts of manslaughter and reckless endangerment, Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer announced in January.A moment of silence was held for Fanta before Academy Park's season opener against Coatesville High School on Friday afternoon.