A 41-year-old man was arrested Friday night on seven charges of aggravated assault and weapons violations after a drunken rampage inside a West Philadelphia apartment, police said.
About 10:30 p.m., Stanley Jones - a security guard who has a permit to carry a gun - arrived at his apartment building on 51st Street near Locust and saw his 26-year-old girlfriend standing outside.
Police said Jones was drunk, and suspected that his girlfriend was waiting outside to meet another man.
The couple started arguing outside, and took the fight to the bedroom of their third-floor apartment, police said.
Eventually, Jones pulled his gun from his holster and his girlfriend told police she thought he was going to put it in the closet.
Instead, he pointed the gun at her.
Jones said, “You think I’m stupid, I know what’s going on,” said Lt. John Walker of the Southwest Detective Division.
The woman pleaded with him and told him there were children on the other side of the door. Two of the woman’s friends - and her friends’ three children - were inside the apartment at the time.
Jones fired a shot at the door and the woman begged him to stop, Walker said. He fired a second shot at the door, then slipped on a pile of clothes and fell to the floor.
The woman jumped on top of Jones and tried to wrestle the gun away. During the scuffle, a third shot was fired through the floor and into the bedroom of an apartment on the second floor.
The bullet missed a 24-year-old woman who was lying in bed by about five feet. Two children, ages 1 and 8, were also in the second-floor apartment at the time, Walker said.
Police arrived on the scene and found crying children and their parents outside. They told cops that Jones was inside and was armed with a gun, Walker said. Police rushed into the building and found Jones inside the apartment.
“They see Mr. Jones standing there with the gun in his right hand, they’re able to disarm him and bring him into custody,” Walker said.
Jones put up a fight and was tazed twice until he could be subdued, Walker said.
He was being treated at Mercy Hospital early Saturday morning, and is awaiting arraignment.
I firmly believe that citizens should have the right to own guns, but it seems to me that common sense dictates that there should be more than cursory psychological interviewing/testing involved before being allowed to obtain one. We are, after all, talking about guns.— wb2nd- Just plain stupid.— looneytune
- I hope this stupid guard loses hit job. Congrats on making legal gun owners look stupid. Jerk.— PurpleHaze70
- He is lucky he did not kill anyone or that he was not killed himself— coadyp
Comment removed.- Maybe the second half of the Sixer's game was just to much to take...Wonder if he sang it like Marvin Gaye when he said..."what's going on".— bearsfriend
- Here's a stat for you - in 2008, 67% of murders were committed with firearms...how's that for your 2nd amendment, which is interpreted incorrectly to begin with...— rmazzeo
- That's an interesting stat. Please also post up this stat: Of the 67%, how many murders were committed by people illegally carrying/possessing the firearms?
I think you are the one with incorrect interpretations about where gun violence comes from - it sure isn't 2A supporters that legally possess/carry firearms.— lvresident - ou really are a tool. Why do you think anyone is going to believe your "stat" is true/ Just because you say it is? Your problem is that if anyone really wants to find out and they go to DOJ and FBI's national crime statistics, they will find out that there is no such statistic and that you in fact made it up yourself. You need to get out of your jammies and find a life outside your mother's basement. — Traveller
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- re-did...you have it right...This jackalope is a complete and utter failure...— soccerdad1150
- oh that stanley he's such a hoot.
- Friday night was always pizza night in our house....— Bill E. Penn
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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