A 20-year-old man was riddled with seven bullets in Southwest Philadelphia earlier tonight, police said. The victim, whose name was not released, was approached by a group of four men near 61st Street and Buist Avenue about 5 p.m., said Lt. John Walker of Southwest Detectives.
It’s unclear if words were exchanged, but one or more of the men soon opened fire, wounding the victim in the chest, legs and arms, Walker said. He was listed in critical but stable condition at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Walker said investigators had no descriptions of the assailants.
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LOL...I always wondered about that too ryno— chrissmith- Let me guess about ryno5..racist, jerk, idiot, numbskull— igglegreen
- Looks like he has a career as a rapper, just like 50 Cent.— WWTDD
- Another banner night for black youth in the city. Bravo boys keep it up so our city can remain a cesppol for murder and crime, and an overall national embarrassment.— Rob Neyer sucks
- igglegreen - if what ryno5 says is accurate, does it make him a racist?— triton1
- That particular place used to be a sleepy, quiet neighborhood until 3/4 of the properties were turned into Title 8. Now, it's more dangerous there than in Kabul. So far this year there have been more than a dozen incidents of shootings and armed robberies there.— DonQ
- It was an accident...oops.....LOL— MontcoPaul
- triton 1 - yest it makes ryno5 a racist. We all know the code words used to define "some of our" black youth. We have code words for you but are intelligent enought not to put them in print. It just shows that nothing has changed. I hope one of them catches you in an alley and see if you will say that to his face. I can speak directly with facts about your race. Not stereotyped garbage. Take the time and read some books.— dee90265
- Would th epublic option save us money for his emergency health care? Add this one up folks, the cost of crime in the inner city is staggerring. We are building $800 million on more and bigger prisons, payments for the judicial system is out of control and then throw in the cost to taxpayers of healthcare for the thousand or so people shot in Philadelphia every year. And I would guess most of these people have been collecting government checks for most if not all of their lives. Hey Inquirer, want an idea for an investigative piece? Add all of this up and tell us why we should contue on with tthe liberal policies that have gotten us to this dark place.— tr88
- The fuel is added to the fire when these incidents take place in locations that twenty years ago never had such atrocities take place. It's hard for people to see their former home neighborhoods marred by senseless violence that once did not transpire.— 19151
- PLEASE, No more "stricter gun laws"! Where does the mindset of senseless violence begin, and for once, put the blame where it belongs, on the INDIVIDUAL.— joe sophy
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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