Wilmington bank vice president who was hit by stray bullet has died
In a country as full of guns as this one, blood-soaked and callous as we’ve become – we tell ourselves lies in order to get by day by day and keep reality at bay.
“That’s the bad part of town.”
“What were they doing out at 3am?”
These and other similar lies reveal the depth of our internalized racism and the shallowness of our empathy. We may never utter these lies out loud and yet they are always with us, shadow passengers.
A senior vice president at WSFS Bank died overnight after being shot Tuesday while driving in the 600 block of N. Washington St. in Wilmington, multiple sources confirmed Friday.
Carrie Mondell, senior vice president and director of operational risk management at WSFS, was shot three blocks from the bank’s corporate headquarters at 500 Delaware Ave. Sources with knowledge of the Tuesday evening incident said she was on her way home when she was struck by a stray bullet.
Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki released a statement Friday afternoon condemning the “senseless” violence.
“After a year of the lowest amount of violent crime in recent memory, this latest shooting incident is another painful reminder of how much work lies before us to reduce the gun violence that has gripped our nation,” Purzycki said. “We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to apprehend the perpetrators of these senseless crimes caused by illegal gun use and remove them once and for all from our streets and neighborhoods. While it is no solace to the grieving families, I am confident that by employing best strategies we will continue to reduce the scourge of violence in our city.”
Washington St. is a main access to MLK Blvd, and 95 South heavily used by commuters. The dirty secret here is the high probability of daylight shootings od bystanders and folks in their cars. for several years i could see the 700 block from my office window and more than once I heard or saw shootings on that stretch. Isabel Hughes has a story and Tweets about the Lord Mayot’s minions obfuscating and playing this tragedy down until they no longer could.
If you run government like a business, you view public contact not as transparency but as marketing.
No one will admit it, but this is a dark gift to the the buccinis and Big Mike. In 10 years we will look back and see this shooting as the catalyzing event in the radical re-making of west center city/Quaker hill. Tragic, yes, but people are killed every day by drunk and distracted drivers. But those tragedies can rarely be leveraged, and downtown corporate types have more power than ever before to threaten a pull-out.
There is an older gentleman who hangs around various parts of town (Washington at 2nd street being one spot, although recently he has been hanging over by church street at the foot of the 12th street bridge) who solicits donations. He has an old jug with “stop the violence” scrawled on the side. I can never tell if it actually supports a legitimate charity, or if it’s just a hustle
to part people from their change. The cynic in me sees a community so broken, that even the elders amongst it will profiteer on their collective despair.
NascarDad, The cynic in you is correct. An exellent example is Stephanie Bolden who as an “elder” of the community sold her own people down the river.
They only care because she’s white and rich. Wheres the five alarm coverage for all “the rest”? We would have banned guns long ago if every victim was a bank executive.
None of the news reports that I read indicated her race or net worth. Most Senior Vice Presidents of smaller regional banks who are under 40 years old are far from rich.