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Friday, June 26, 2009

Man slain in N.E. bar 4 months after dad was murdered

A triple shooting left one man dead in Northeast Philadelphia earlier today.

Police spokeswoman Officer Jillian Russell said gunfire rang out inside the Irish Kitchen, a bar on Pratt Street near Oakland, at about 1:30 a.m.

Dallas Custalow, 25, of Anchor Street near Saul, was wounded once in the back. He died a short while later at Temple University Hospital, Russell said.

A 20-year-old man was shot once in the head, and was listed in critical condition at Albert Einstein Medical Center. A 30-year-old man who was wounded once in the leg was in stable condition at Hahnemann University Hospital.
Russell said police had no suspects in the bar shooting.

In a strange twist of fate, today marked the second time that tragedy fell upon the Custalow family. On Feb. 23, Custalow’s father, also named Dallas Custalow, died after a violent attack.

Police charged a neighbor on Anchor Street, Michael Bocchinfuso, 44, with using a shovel and trash can to bludgeon the elder Custalow, 71.
 
Posted by David Gambacorta @ 10:33 PM  Permalink | 8 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:17 AM, 06/27/2009
    are these cases related?
    — philly_girL_215
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:01 PM, 06/29/2009
    father had a violent criminal past. murder, rape etc. looks like junior was following his lead. bye-bye.
    — fkdguy
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:47 PM, 06/29/2009
    It is what it is.
    — brizz33
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:50 PM, 06/29/2009
    Oh no! If these kinds of things can happen at a WHITE bar, we're all goin 2 hell, huh?
    — Ohpleasenow
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 7:57 PM, 06/29/2009
    And the whites don't post comments or critize thier own criminals. They give them a pass!
    — MsLou
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:20 PM, 07/02/2009
    Right in the heart of Frankford... no surprise. You reap what you sow.
    — SJ_Native


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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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