You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!

Our good friends at The Philadelphia Inquirer have been doing a series on criminal justice where juveniles are concerned. Part 1 was An outlier on juvenile incarceration, noting that Philly locks up juvies at a rate much higher than other cities, Part 2 is Reforms promised, then abandoned, Part 3 is Womb-to-prison pipeline, noting the not-surprising-at-all fact that kids who bounce around in foster care are far more likely to wind up in jail, and today’s Tracking Teens: Philly is monitoring more kids by GPS than ever.

Well, perhaps, just perhaps, kids in the Philly region really are more likely to be bad kids.

Teen charged with murder in death of Norristown man allegedly linked to a gang feud

Kaleem Naseer Roland is accused of gunning down Tahaj Andru “Pooh” Harrison on May 23. Two other suspects are being sought.

by Robert Moran | Wednesday, June 4, 2025 | 11:02 PM EDT

A teenager was arrested Wednesday and charged with first-degree murder in the Norristown shooting death of a 20-year-old man last month in what authorities said was an ongoing gang feud involving prior killings and anger over an Instagram post.

Kaleem Naseer Roland of Norristown, who turned 16 on Thursday, is accused of gunning down Tahaj Andru “Pooh” Harrison on the 600 block of Corson Street shortly before 9:45 p.m. on May 23, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said.

Steele also announced that an arrest warrant had been issued for 17-year-old Naseem Worrell of Norristown for first-degree murder in the death of Harrison, and the prosecutor was offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. A third alleged shooter remains unidentified.

Norristown police were alerted to gunfire in the area and found Harrison dead in the rear yard of his residence, where he staggered to before collapsing in front of his mother, detectives said.

No, of course the Inky didn’t include young Mr Roland’s mugshot, but I found it easily on the Pottstown Mercury.

The feud was “an ongoing gang feud involving prior killings and anger over an Instagram post”. And, if they are found guilty, young Mr Roland, and Mr Worrell, and apparently a third gang-banger, are going to spend a couple dozen years locked up — this is Norristown, not Philadelphia, so the city’s criminal-loving, police-hating District Attorney, Larry Krasner, can’t cut him a sweetheart deal — behind an Instagram post.

Neither life without parole nor the death penalty are options, because the accused are juveniles. But, whenever they get out, Tahaj Harrison will still be stone-cold graveyard dead.

There’s an apparent epidemic of just plain stupidity going around the greater Philadelphia area. What on God’s earth could have been so bad on Instagram that three teenagers thought it a wise idea to kill someone over it, thought that he needed killin’ so bad that they were willing to risk spending twenty or thirty or forty years in prison?

Who knows, perhaps drugs were involved, which compromised their reasoning, but stupidity is the base for using drugs in the first place.

So, he’s in a heap o’ trouble, if he’s one of the killers, because he’s just plain stupid.