The Daily Numbers for Friday, Sept. 27

The Daily Numbers: 100 people who gathered in the parking lot of the Rite Aid in Chester, exactly 1 week after the murder of store manager Jason Scott McClay.

2 hours later, a man was gunned down on the 100 block of East 23rd Street.

75, age of the Rev. Robert Brennan, who is charged with raping an altar boy at a Philadelphia parish.

20 abuse complaints that had been filed against Brennan, most of which beyond the statute of limitations.

1962, when they opened the doors to the Riddle Ale House. The owner says he has no intention of selling despite big changes coming to the Granite Run Mall that sits right behind his pub on Baltimore Pike.

8 to 15 years in prison for an Aston man convicted of arson in a house fire in January.

1 nonprofit supermarket in the United State, as of Saturday. It will be located in Chester. Welcome Fair & Square.

0 supermarkets in the city of 33,000 for the last 12 years.

36.9 percent of city resident living in poverty.

13.2 percent unemployment rate in the city.

70 jobs being created at the new store.

13 cemeteries owned by the archdiocese that will now be privately managed in an outsourcing deal.

89 million over 35 years, how much the archdiocese will be paid under the deal.

4 days to go before a potential government shutdown.

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I Don’t Get It: Just hours after a vigil to honor the memory of slain Rite Aid manager Jason Scott McClay, a man was gunned down on another Chester street.

Today’s Upper: Kudos to all those who came together last night calling for an end to violence in Chester. Some people obviously did not get the message.

Quote Box: “If I could have been there, I would have held him, even if he was already gone. - Bruce McClay, father of Rite Aid murder victim Jason Scott McClay.

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