Tag: Crime

I missed this story on the local news.  A guy coming home from work gets shot after cashing his paycheck.  The criminal probably spotted him at the check cashing place on Pratt Street.  His mother may have saved his life.

Jessie Williams said she did not believe what she was seeing – a man pointing a gun at her son on Friday.

“He was saying, ‘I’m going to shoot you in the head,'” Williams said. “I was trying to grab my son, pull him in the house,” she said.

The man and her son struggled. Williams jumped into the fray but was unable to keep the man from firing his weapon, she said.”I heard two shots,” she said. “He shot my son in the chest.”

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From 6abc.com:

…when an officer was injured while rushing to a call about gunshots fired into a crowd in the Frankford section.

Investigators say a rap video was being recorded outside of Minnow’s bar at Bridge and Jackson Streets when someone suddenly fired into the large crowd. 19-year-old Bruce Lassiter from the 5200 block of Dittman Avenue was shot and rushed to Temple University Hospital where he later died from his wounds.

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We have updated the crime map page with data from 8/4 to 8/17/2008.  Here is the link.

Vermin or weasels, call them what you will, they are crawling out of their hiding places and enjoying the fine weather this summer. 

Philadelphia police are searching for two teenagers they said assaulted an elderly woman in Frankford.

 The assault happened in the 5300 block of Cottage Street (map) Monday night, police said.

 The woman told police that the teens knocked her to the ground.

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From the Daily News today:

A retired Philadelphia cop working as a pizza deliveryman fatally shot a 14-year-old boy who was pointing a gun at him during an attempted robbery yesterday morning in Frankford, police said.

…the 14-year-old and two other suspects were trying to rob the ex-officer at gunpoint while he was delivering a pizza about 1:15 a.m. on Lesher Street near Bridge, police spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore said.

The boy pointed the gun at the former cop while his cohorts — also believed to be teenagers — attempted to go through the victim’s pockets, Vanore said.

But the deliveryman — whose name was withheld by police — was able to reach into a pocket and pull out a semiautomatic Glock, which he had a permit to carry, Vanore said.

The deliveryman shot the gun-wielding boy once in the chest, and the boy was pronounced dead at 2:14 a.m. at Temple University Hospital, police said. His identity was not released pending notification of his family and the identification of his alleged accomplices.

It’s never a great thing to take a life, even when you are justified as this case seems to be.  But these kids have taken the wrong path and maybe some other stupid kid will realize that now.  When they take up the path of violence, it leads to death. 

There will be some who will be second guessing the ex-cop.  When somebody points a gun at you, they give up the right to a second chance.  Cops know that.  Read the rest of the story here.