It had been a pleasant Sunday for Stephanie and Amber Long: a shopping trip where they picked out a $14 purse, an evening jewelry party. And now, mother and daughter were making their way home.
It was around 10:30 p.m., and they were walking to their car, parked on a Belgian block-paved stretch of Front Street in Northern Liberties where ritzy new apartments share space with vacant lots.
On the last day of her life, 26-year-old Amber, an architect who lived in South Philadelphia, had parked near a friend's house. She and her mother, Stephanie, a jeweler from Harrisburg who often visited her daughter, were steps from their car.
That's when two men approached from behind.
One snatched Stephanie Long's purse. The other went for the bag Amber had picked out with her mother.
Amber held on.
There was a loud pop.
And Stephanie Long turned to see Amber on the ground with a gunshot wound in her chest.
Or in November
