Jessie Cain was on his way to pay his son's tuition bill at the Community College of Philadelphia yesterday morning when crime-scene tape went up around him on Spring Garden Street near 16th and police officers forced him back down the block. Reports of an armed man on campus had placed the school on lockdown and Cain, 67, who worked in school security for four decades before his retirement, stood helpless at the corner, wondering if his son, Khalif, who was inside one of the classrooms, would be all right. "When I worked in the schools, we had gang problems and drug problems," Cain said. "Now we got just-trying-to-stay-alive problems."

October 7, 2015 ・ From Philadelphia Daily News