Cops: Teen charged in Aug. slaying

A South Philly teen has been charged in connection to the August murder of a 16-year-old boy in Point Breeze, police said today.

Qudair McCrea, 17, was arrested Thursday at a home on Westmoreland Street near 20th in Tioga, said Officer Jillian Russell, a police spokeswoman.

McCrea, of 27th Street near Wolf, faces murder, conspiracy and related offense in the fatal shooting of Damien James, who was gunned down Aug. 20  outside a family friend's house on 21st Street near Dickinson.

James, whom police at the time described as an innocent kid with no prior criminal record, was shot twice in his chest and abdomen. He was prounounced dead about a half-hour later at Methodist Hospital.

Investigators said an argument sparked the shooting, but it wasn't clear what the two were feuding over, said Russell.