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PHILADELPHIA — It was 6:36 p.m. Monday when Jasmine Wilcox spoke on the phone with her 13-year-old son, Jeremiah, for what she did not know would be the last time. “Jeremiah, you OK?” she asked. “Yes, Mom, I’m outside talking to my friends,” Wilcox recalled her son saying. “And I said, ‘OK it’s a school night. Be home by 8.” Twelve minutes later, Jeremiah was shot twice, struck in the head and body, police said, as he stood outside his friend’s house in West Oak Lane. When the shots rang out, a 14-year-old friend and his mother rushed to Jeremiah’s side as he lay bleeding on the sidewalk in fr…