Police Thursday night arrested Alfonzo Priester, 19, shortly after a shooting in the parking lot of the Hope Plaza, on 22nd Street near Lehigh Avenue, that left three people hospitalized in stable condition.
Priester, of Tioga Street near Ontario, was identified by a witness, police said.
Shots rang out about 6 p.m. in the parking lot outside the shopping center. A 32-year-old man was shot once in his right thigh, a 29-year-old woman was shot twice in her left shoulder, and a 19-year-old man was shot in his right ankle, police said.
Early reports from police indicated that there were two suspects and apprehensions made — however Officer Christine O’Brien, a police department spokeswoman, said there was only one suspect in the shooting.
Police found Priester in a vacant house on Cambria Street near Woodstock, about six blocks from the scene. Information on the man’s motive was not available.
He is charged with three counts of aggravated assault, simple assault, terroristic threats and weapons violations.
He looks nice.— BurbGuy- He's only 19??? I would say 35.— Lethaldosage21
Comment removed.- no he's not a granfather i dont like what my cousin did but yall not go sit on yall computers talking spit about my cuz!!!! — des2truthful
- OK Tarzan— WantToKnow
- His sentence will be 12 months reporting probation followed by 30 hours community service— TakingAstand
- The face of Philadelphia.........— RufusG
- Is there someone standing to my left?— TheodorePikul
- Well, I guess we know your position on racial issues, Anthony Conti II. How about I say something derogatory about the Mafia just for you? I mean, fair's fair.— Dave Clemens
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- Okay, let's remember our social studies from elementary school. There are three levels of government: federal, state, and local. President Obama is involved with laws that are effective at the FEDERAL level, such as laws governing TERRORISM. That's because he's President of the United States...all fifty of them. What this individual is accused of doing is ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, and possibly ATTEMPTED MURDER, and similar charges. These FELONIES are crimes under STATE law, so if you have problems with the penalties for these crimes, ask Governor Corbett to ask the state legislature to make changes, because Mr. Corbett is governor of the COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. ("Commonwealth" is the same as "state," by the way...). Don't bring President Obama or Mayor Nutter into this discussion, because neither is responsible, in any way, for STATE LAW. Maybe you should make a new beginning in studying the way government works...just for your own edification...and no, I won't define that term for you. Google it. — bbk713
- Now there is a picture of a model citizen. Let me guess...he waaaassss a VP at a local bank, Right?— spreadheadpa
- I hope this incident doesn’t give north philly a bad reputation….— whododatvoodoo
- we people of north philly already gane it a bad reputation — des2truthful
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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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