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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Police: Woman shot in forehead in Kensington

This post has been updated.

A 25-year-old woman was shot in the forehead on a Kensington street Sunday afternoon.

The shooting happened shortly after 4 p.m. at Ruth and Orleans streets, police said. The shooters were described by police as two thin Hispanic men who were last seen fleeing through McPherson Square at F Street and Indiana Avenue. Police said the men jumped into a white Honda or Acura coupe and headed west on Indiana.

The woman was taken to Temple University Hospital and listed in extremely critical condition. Police did not release information on what motivated the shooting.

Posted by Morgan Zalot @ 5:08 PM Permalink | 21 comments

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:37 PM, 02/12/2012

My gawd, this sounds like an execution.

— aviator

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:43 PM, 02/12/2012

Walking through Kensington is like being in Beirut. If you stay there long enough someone is going to try you.

— hustler

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:45 PM, 02/12/2012

The suspects were two thin men? Huh? That's it? No ethnicity to them?

— Anthony Palmer

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:08 PM, 02/12/2012

its the daily news for gods sake! mediocre reporting AT BEST. lol

— DailyNewsSux

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:15 PM, 02/12/2012

Q: How thin were they?
OK, OK....you're doing the PC thing. I get it. Don't want to get any groups in Philly up in arms. Well, let's go 'codewords'. Were any wearing 'hoodies'? Was 'bling' of any kind sported by the perps? Did they hold their guns sideways when shooting....so that they had the right kind of "style" while shooting a defenseless woman? Was the footgear they wore involved in any shopping riots around Christmas when the stores opened? Were they drinking "forties" C'mon. Help us out.

— Yermak29

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:18 PM, 02/12/2012

It's in Bob Brady's hands.

— TheodorePikul

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:36 PM, 02/12/2012

Does anyone actually read the articles, it does say Hispanic males.
But if the writing gets any worse even the birds won't poop on this paper.

— Joe Kingsmill

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:12 PM, 02/12/2012

Http://phillycontact.com let's all help make our city safe

— markbrown

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:11 PM, 02/12/2012

Do you get $40K if you turn both of them in?

— Wilhelm Von Humboldt

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:26 PM, 02/12/2012

they gonna rat on each other and both will get 20k. that goes along way at the prison canteen.

— couldabeenakenzo

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:29 PM, 02/12/2012

kewl

— The Usual Suspects

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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.

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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