Legal Opinion
Rodney Hargrove, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, et al.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided December 8, 2025No. 2:21-cv-04082Unknown
1Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA RODNEY HARGROVE, et al., Plaintiffs, CIVIL ACTION v. NO. 21-4082 CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, et al., Defendants. Pappert, J. December 8, 2025 MEMORANDUM In the early morning hours of March 18, 2021, Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility officials released Rodney Michael Hargrove after he posted bail. He was placed in a van, along with four other released inmates, and taken outside the prison’s gates, near a SEPTA bus stop. Minutes later, Ameen Hurst murdered Rodney in a drive-by shooting. The two did not know each other;…
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