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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Cop and kid hospitalized in separate shootings

A Philadelphia police officer was hospitalized with a hip injury last night after a driver trying to flee other cops pinned him against his police cruiser. Chief Inspector Scott Small said three other officers opened fire on the fleeing vehicle. The driver jumped out while his car was still moving and tried to escape on foot.

He was quickly apprehended by cops while his car, a light blue Ford Taurus, plowed into a concrete barrier.

Small said the car was pulled over shortly after 8 p.m. on

26th Street
near Wilder in South Philadelphia and as an officer was trying to get the driver to produce identification cards, the driver jammed the vehicle in reverse and sped backwards. Another officer who had arrived as backup was pinned by the rear passenger side of the car against his patrol car and suffered hip and possible internal injuries. He was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and is listed in stable condition. The suspect, identified only as a 46-year-old man, was taken to the South Detective Division. Small said five shots were fired. Some of the windows of the Taurus were shattered but no one was hit.

In other news, a 9-year-old boy and a 15-year-old are hospitalized after being shot in South Philly last night, police said. The shooting occurred shortly before 6 p.m. on

7th Street
near Tasker. The younger victim, who is listed in critical but stable condition, was shot once in the chest and leg; the teen was struck in the hip and is in stable condition. Both are being treated at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia . Police reported no motive or suspects.

 

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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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