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Monday, February 6, 2012

Man dead after shooting in Overbrook

A 24-year-old man was shot to death in broad daylight on an Overbrook street Monday afternoon.

Police said the man was outside at 55th and Hunter streets at 1:41 p.m. when he was shot twice in the chest. He was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania by medics, where he was pronounced dead at 2:07 p.m.

Police described the suspect as a thin black man, 5 feet 7 inches tall with a goatee. He wore a gray hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, black Nike sneakers and a black hat and was armed with a silver revolver.

Police had not made any arrests in the incident as of Monday night.

Posted by Morgan Zalot @ 10:07 PM Permalink | 12 comments

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:34 PM, 02/06/2012

killers aim appears to be improving.

— high water

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:01 PM, 02/06/2012

As of yet, there is no incentive that restrains killers. The idea of a life in prison has no fears...since prison is just another place to exist......just as a fly could care less if it lives in a beautiful home or a dump. Sadly, only when some punishment that is so feared is instituted will we see a change. Education hasn't worked ( Ackerman's attempt is a good example of that). The churches do little...far too many pastors are ensconsed in a lazy ritual of shouting and hooting, and passing a collection plate. A stealth grift. Raising the level of consciousness as well as the socio-economic level in this city is a daunting task, and few have any real answers. And you can count on the ACLU to thwart your every attempt to make things better.

— Alfred-King of Wessex

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:37 AM, 02/07/2012

Alfred: Public Hangings maybe?

— Lil Bobby

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:14 AM, 02/07/2012

Hmm, Family and socialization, Police failures and now Nutter gets to pay $25k in scarce city money to catch the guy? What a city.

— Obamasfool

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:34 AM, 02/07/2012

A gray hoodie is more appropriate when accesorized with a silver handgun. Had the perp used a black gun, of course we would expect him to wear a dark hoodie. The crime was also committed in the afternoon. Generally, a dark hoodie is considered evening-wear, suitable for dinners and stickups at the Chinese store.

— BurbGuy

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:16 PM, 02/07/2012

yes we are. does that make you happy? do you enjoy using violence over reason on people? to that i say-usual suspects. to think King's holiday just past. what a fall from grace for the black community.

— high water

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:03 AM, 02/07/2012

burb guy you are dog whistling today

— joegrink

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:19 AM, 02/07/2012

If only it were funny....

— lori0906

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:38 AM, 02/07/2012

Fits the description of 50% of urban black males and 98% of urban gangstanistas!

— lefty

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About The PhillyConfidential team

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.

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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