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Man critically wounded in South Philadelphia shooting

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Man critically wounded in South Philadelphia shooting

POSTED: Friday, October 19, 2012, 8:40 PM

A shooting in the Girard Park section of South Philadelphia left a 20-year-old man hospitalized in critical condition Friday night, police said.

Shots were fired at around 7:35 p.m. on Croskey Street near McKean and the victim was wounded once in his abdomen. He was taken by police to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Cops were unsure of the shooter’s motive and a detailed description of the suspect was not immediately available.

Phillip Lucas @ 8:40 PM Permalink | 9 comments

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:26 PM, 10/19/2012

THIS IS NOT THE GIRARD PARK SECTION OF SOUTH PHILADELPHIA. IT IS POINT BREEZE

— psgl73

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:32 PM, 10/19/2012

Philadelphia is not Seattle. alot more neighborhoods that can change block by block. don't just look at a map or google. learn the city if you are going to report on crime

— psgl73

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:45 PM, 10/19/2012

what is 85?

— The Usual Suspects

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:49 AM, 10/20/2012

@Nat Turner. With your speech impediment and your spelling, you wouldn't be allowed nor couldn't affored to live in Girard Estates. We don't speak ebonics here. Get out and stay out, dirtbag. And get it straight....Girard College was where blacks weren't welcome by the Will of Stephen Girard. It's just that the low class people like you can't afford to live in a good neighborhood.

— woodstock452

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:57 AM, 10/20/2012

Well congratulations nat and woodstock, two of the worst posts ever.

— th

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:06 AM, 10/20/2012

Girard park? where's this reporter from?

— phillysmart

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:05 AM, 10/20/2012

Are they trying to rename Point Breeze Girard Estates now??? Time for a march against this attack on the neighborhood.

— BarryG

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:17 PM, 10/20/2012

nat turner, the racist terms of Stephen Girard's will were voided 13 years after Brown vs. Board of Education, and African-American students began attending the school on 1968.

If you're going to hatemonger and race-bait, at least get your facts straight.

— TheodorePikul

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:12 PM, 10/20/2012

Croskey at McKean is Point Breeze. I've been in Portland, Or for 30 years and I'm positive; knew that when I lived by the gas works.

— jerseyguy242

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