by KYW's Mike DeNardo
Angry residents in Philadelphia's Wynnefield neighborhood want to know why crime cameras were not working in their neighborhood over the weekend when a 23-year-old man was shot and killed outside a Chinese restaurant.
Residents say if you're going to have surveillance cameras they should work. Cameras installed last fall along the 54th Street Corridor are used as a way to stop crime.
But the cameras have been off for several stretches since they were put in including early Sunday morning when a 23-year-old man was shot dead outside a Chinese restaurant at 54th and Arlington.
Residents say a camera right on the corner could have recorded that murder, but the camera was not working. Derek Relton was among the residents at a community protest Tuesday night:
"If something was to happen to me, I want somebody to be able to know why and how it happened. I mean if you're going to have the cameras, they should be working."
The Philadelphia Commercial Development Corporation which runs the cameras, says hackers and a lightening strike were the reasons the cameras were off.
The president of the PCDP says the cameras should be working again by Friday, and he wants the D-A and the US attorney to investigate the hackers.
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