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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

An argument over dog feces between neighbors in Tacony led to a shooting Tuesday afternoon that left one man dead and another in police custody.

Police Chief Inspector Scott Small gave this account:

About 4 p.m., officers from the 15th District responded to a home on Torresdale Avenue, between Magee and Hellerman Street, and found a 47-year-old man lying dead on the front porch of a house.

Before shots rang out, the victim and his neighbor, a 27-year-old man, were in an argument that eventually turned physical.

The victim argued with the suspect about the suspect's unattended dogs, a Chihuahua and German shepherd, defecating on nearby lawns.

The men struggled over a gun, and the 47-year-old man was shot at least twice in his neck. He was pronounced dead on the scene.

The victim's neighbor, who was carrying a 9-milimeter handgun, was taken into custody and was being interviewed by homicide detectives Tuesday night.

The shooter may have had a permit to carry a weapon.    

“Any type of argument or fight that’s gonna lead to gunfire is a terrible thing,” Small said, “That this argument may have been over a dog, it’s horrifying.”

Posted by Morgan Zalot @ 6:39 PM  Permalink |
About The PhillyConfidential team

Dana DiFilippo has covered murder, mayhem and miscellany at the Daily News since 2000. She grew up in Delaware County and studied journalism and photography at Penn State University. E-mail tips to difilid@phillynews.com.

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Stephanie Farr has been reporting for the Daily News since 2007, covering everything from gay porn stars who entered the burglary business to moon trees, skinheads, murders and naked bike rides. She covers crime, both in the city and suburbs, and keeps clippings of bizarre Associated Press articles. Her favorite this year was the story about the drunk in Punxsutawney who gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dead opossum. E-mail tips to farrs@phillynews.com.

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Phillip Lucas joined the Daily News crime team in 2011. He grew up on the mean streets of Seattle and studied journalism and psychology at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Before landing in the City of Brotherly Love, Phillip was a reporter for The News Journal in Wilmington, Del. Email tips to lucasp@phillynews.com.

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Morgan Zalot is the newest crime reporter at the Daily News, starting in 2011 after interning at the paper twice as a Temple University journalism student. In her past stints at the DN, she covered just about everything, from drunken Phillies fans to a barber shop in a high school to a grisly murder-suicide. She’s a born-and-raised Philly girl who grew up in the Northeast. E-mail tips to zalotm@philly.com.

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