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Friday, September 18, 2009

Thugs fire 53 shots in Eastwick showdown

Two groups of trigger-happy fools blasted 53 shots at each other yesterday on a quiet street in Eastwick where schoolchildren were playing, police said.
Amazingly, no one was struck by the swarm of slugs that ripped through the air on Bittern Place near Eastwick Avenue about 3:30 p.m., said Lt. John Walker of Southwest Detectives.
At least three gunmen — armed with an assault rifle and 9mm handguns — walked up and fired at four young men who were sitting outside 2837 Bittern Place, a house that been something of nuisance property to<NO1>surrounding<NO> neighbors, Walker said.
One of the men in the targeted group shot back with a .40-caliber handgun.
When the gunfire ended, the shooters darted into a white SUV with a New Jersey license plate and sped off, Walker said.
Police arrested Joseph Del Rossi, 25, who lives at the nuisance property. He was charged with narcotics violations because police found crack cocaine inside, Walker said.
“It could’ve been a disaster out there. You had about 10 children who were outside playing,” he said.
Walker said he wanted city agencies, including the Department of Licenses and Inspections, to work on shuttering the nuisance property
Posted by David Gambacorta @ 12:04 AM  Permalink | 8 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:50 AM, 09/18/2009
    hmmm....think anyone involved is on parole?
    — johnhenry
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:12 AM, 09/18/2009
    THUGZ = BUMZ!!!!
    — phillygtown
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:12 AM, 09/18/2009
    THUGZ = BUMZ!!!!
    — phillygtown
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 7:07 AM, 09/18/2009
    I hate lousy shots...
    — feltonville
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 7:51 AM, 09/18/2009
    Thugs is racist.
    — tr88
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:14 AM, 09/18/2009
    What in the hell is going on with these lunatics?
    — an observer3
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:47 AM, 09/22/2009
    Did no good I live on the street. I drove by today and four of the dirt bags were standing in front of the house. I kid that lives there was not there. It makes me sick to think that kids counld have been hit.
    — swpbittern


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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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