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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Police issued an arrest warrant today for Troy Townshend, 26, in connection with a daytime shooting in Northeast Philadelphia last Friday.

Investigators said Townshend, of Mountain Street near 18th in South Philadelphia, blasted away with a semi-automatic handgun at about 3 p.m. and wounded a 23-year-old man several times in the torso on Granite Street near Frankford Avenue in East Frankford. Townshend fled, and the incident then took a few bizarre twists.

The gunshot victim tried to carjack an 80-year-old man -- and succeeded, sort of. The elderly man got tangled in the seat belt and was dragged down the street until the gunshot victim crashed into another vehicle, investigators said. The shooting victim, who police have not identified, is currently in stable condition at Frankford-Torresdale Hospital. The elderly man treated at Temple University Hospital and released.

Anyone with information on Townshend's whereabouts is asked to contact Northeast Detectives at 215-686-3153 or -3154.

Posted by David Gambacorta @ 3:28 PM  Permalink |
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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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