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Authorities arrested two Grays Ferry inhabitants for their supposed involvement in a Friday murder.
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The Philadelphia Police Department announced Monday that it has detained Tameca Rivera-Griffin (right) and Fatima Moses (left), both of the 1600 block of South Napa Street, for the Jan. 2 shooting of Gerald Sawyer. At approximately 11:21 p.m. on the earlier date, 39th District police officers observed the man at a North Philadelphia-situated playground with a gunshot wound to the right side of his head. They arranged transport to Temple Hospital for the 24-year-old, whom personnel pronounced dead at 11:30 p.m.
Police have not revealed what led them to 34-year-old Rivera-Griffin or 26-year-old Moses, whom they arrested with three men. They charged Rivera-Griffin, who was denied bail and awaits a Jan. 21 preliminary hearing, with murder, conspiracy and firearms violations and Moses, who had not posted her $150,000 bail as of press time and who awaits a similar hearing on the same date, with firearms violations.
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