Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — They stepped into the building side by side, two cousins with a simple plan: confront a man about a lingering debt. The visit to the North Philadelphia tax office should have taken minutes. But once the door closed behind them, it never opened again.
Jerome Lawrence and Sindrell Oliver are cousins who lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
According to the Philadelphia Police Department, on Wednesday, October 7, 2020, Jerome was dropped off at the corner of Lehigh and 5th Streets to catch the SEPTA bus. He took the bus to the 5400 block of North 5th Street, where he met Sindrell. Authorities report that Jerome went to see a man about a debt while Sindrell accompanied him for support. Jerome and Sindrell walked into a tax preparation shop at 5416 North 5th Street in the Olney section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The men never walked out.…