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Friday, November 28, 2008

We didn't have any mayhem today directly related to shopping -- like, say, this or that -- but there was still violence in the City of Brotherly Love.

A man in his 20s was fatally shot in a parking lot behind a bar in Overbrook Park. Homicide detectives said the victim, whose name was not released, was gunned down at about 4 p.m. on Haverford Avenue near Woodbine Avenue. The victim died a short time later at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Investigators had no motives or suspects.

At about 6 p.m., a 32-year-old man was shot in the back during an apparent carjacking near 10th Street and Glenwood Avenue in North Philadelphia. Police said the victim was taken to Temple University Hospital in stable condition. The man's car was found abandoned not far from the shooting scene a short while later, but no arrests were made.

A 22nd District police officer lucked out with minor injuries after his cruiser slammed into a wall near 21st and Diamond streets at about 7:50 p.m. Accident investigators said the cop had swerved to avoid colliding with another vehicle. The officer was treated at Temple University Hospital and released. No other injuries were reported.

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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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