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Monday, December 15, 2008

More sacrificed animals and other Monday violence

While my esteemed colleague is recovering from an illness today I held down the fort. It was a busy night.

- Three more animals were found decapitated in the Greenmount Cemetery in Hunting Park yesterday and Sunday, investigators for the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said yesterday. A beheaded rooster was found hanging from a tree about 4p.m. Monday, a bloody plate and knife nearby. A goat and another rooster were discovered Sunday morning. The rooster was also hanging from a tree; the goat was left in a road. Eight goats were found sacrificed two weeks ago. PSPCA investigators say the incidents are connected and are working to track down who’s responsible. Stay tuned for more on this developing story.

- In other news, a man who police have not identified was hospitalized last night after being shot multiple times during a carjacking last night in East Falls , police said. The shooting occurred on

Fox Street
near
Abbottsford Avenue
 about 8 p.m., police said. The victim was taken to a local hospital where he’s being treated. Suspects were seen fleeing in a white Bonneville, possibly with a window shot out. In another shooting, an 18-year-old teenager was hospitalized yesterday after being shot in the head in Nicetown police said. The shooting took place on
Germantown Avenue
 near
West Seymour Street
 about 3:30p.m. Police reported no suspects or motive.

 
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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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