A man murdered in Philadelphia last week was targeted because he was considered a “snitch” for testifying in a 2019 murder trial, his distraught mother said.
Khaleaf Sistrunk, 21, died on Nov. 16 after two gunmen unleashed a torrent of 11 rounds as he sat on a dirt bike near the Clothespin sculpture across from City Hall in Center City. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital, where doctors found him in possession of an unlicensed 9mm handgun, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
“They shot him because they said he was a snitch,” Sistrunk’s mother, who asked not to be identified due to fears of reprisal, told the newspaper. “He was trying to do the right thing and he got killed for it.”
Sistrunk, whose relatives said he had been shot at eight times in the past two years, spoke to police in 2018 about the still-unsolved drive-by killing of his older brother, Khalil. He also testified last year as a witness in a murder trial of a teen who fatally shot his friend on Easter Sunday, the newspaper reported.
Sitting on a dirt bike in the street with a 9 mm …. no future in thuggery