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Port Richmond Target Reopens Following Last Month's Looting After Walter Wallace Jr. Shooting

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Stores in Philadelphia's Port Richmond neighborhood are reopening following looting last month in the wake of the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. The Target store on Castor Avenue reopened Monday morning.

The store closed on Oct. 27 and had been boarded up. Looters broke into the back of the store and caused significant damage.

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Wallace Jr. was shot 14 times and killed by police on Oct. 26 as police say he walked toward the officers while holding a knife and refused to drop it.

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