Investigators hunting for the man who shot and critically wounded Dwight Dixon on July 21 have served a search warrant at Playmakers, the Fairmount bar owned by NFL star Marvin Harrison, the Daily News has learned.
Dixon was riddled with seven bullets while he sat inside a Toyota Camry on Girard Avenue near 28th Street, just two blocks north of Harrison’s bar, police said.
Dixon, 33, who last year claimed that Harrison shot him in the hand following a fistfight — told an officer at the scene of the July 21 shooting that he believed the shooter had been hired by Harrison.
A law-enforcement source said that detectives, who executed the warrant on Saturday, wanted to review the bar’s surveillance footage to see if the gunman — a 6-foot-tall black man who wore a dark hooded jacket, jeans and white sneakers — was inside Playmakers before the shooting.
Investigators are waiting for the footage to be made available, the source said.
Police haven’t spoken with Harrison, the former Indianapolis Colts wide receiver, nor have they found any evidence that he was involved in the July 21 shooting, the source added.
Jerome Brown, the attorney who represented Harrison during last year’s investigation, declined to comment yesterday to the Daily News.
Detectives still haven’t spoken to Dixon, who remains unconscious in an intensive-care unit at Hahnemann University Hospital.
Doctors at Hahnemann spent 10 hours operating on Dixon when he arrived last week with wounds to his chest, stomach and arm.
Surveillance footage filmed by cameras affixed to the front of a Valu-Plus on Girard Avenue showed the gunman shoot repeatedly at Dixon, who was sitting in the driver’s seat of a rental car.
Police last week released images of the triggerman fleeing on foot with his head lowered, making it impossible for his face to be viewed clearly.
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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