Philadelphia Residents on Rising Crime: ‘It’s Getting out of Hand,’ It’s a ‘War Zone’

EXCERPT:

TRUELL: "Someone has to get here. Someone has to get here because Philadelphia — I mean, everywhere you go is a problem, but Philadelphia is really getting out of hand."
REPORTER (voice-over): "Fear is growing in West  Philly. Carmela Truell and her 8-year-old son Yasir walking the same stretch of 57th Street where less than 24 hours earlier, a hundred shots were fired."
TRUELL: "It's to the point I just want to take my son and go."
MUHAMMAD: "It sounded like Beirut out here yesterday. And I've never been out to Beirut, but it sounded like Beirut out here yesterday." 
REPORTER (voice-over): "So like a war zone?"
MUHAMMAD: "Yes, exactly like a war zone."