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Cop wounds armed man

A 24-year-old man was shot in the leg during an encounter with Philadelphia police late Thursday in Northeast Philadelphia.

Two patrol officers pulled up on Pratt Street near Darrah, at 11:48 p.m. while responding to a radio call about gunfire in the area, and spotted a man on a bicycle, pedaling away from a crowd on the block, said Lt. John Stanford, apolice spokesman.

One of the officers noticed that the man had a gun. The man got off his bike and attempted to flee the scene.

Stanford said the officers moved away from the crowd and told the man to drop his gun. Instead, he allegedly pointed the weapon - a 9mm Glock with an extended magazine - at the cops.

One officer opened fire and wounded the man in the upper left leg, Stanford said. When cops searched the man, they also found a .38-caliber Taurus Revolver, he said.

The man was treated at Einstein Medical Center. His name was not released yesterday, but Stanford said he would likely face weapons and assault charges.

No other injuries were reported.

Cops: We have hit-and-run car

The owners of a 2006 Infiniti sedan that struck and killed a 2-year-old boy in North Philadelphia turned it over to cops yesterday.

Police said the vehicle was being used by a friend or relative of the owners when it plowed into Josephine Rivera and her son, David Alicea, as she crossed Mascher Street near Lehigh Avenue, while carrying her son in his car seat, on Monday night.

Rivera, 19, was critically injured and later died. The driver fled the scene.

The owners of the Infiniti noticed the damage on the vehicle later in the week, police said, and then realized it matched the description of the car involved in the hit-and-run accident.

As of last night, no arrests had been made.

Cops arrest mom, boyfriend in boy's death

A Chester woman and her boyfriend were arrested and charged with third-degree murder yesterday in the death of the woman's 2-year-old son in February.

Shannon Matthews, 30, of Madison Street near Houston in Chester, and her boyfriend, Daniel Grafton, 31, of Pennsylvania Avenue near Moore Road in Wallingford, also face aggravated assault and conspiracy charges for the death of Matthews' son, Mason Hunt, on Feb. 3.

During an examination of the body, the Delaware County Medical Examiner noted 120 distinct contusions on the young boy as well as evidence of blunt-force trauma.

Prosecutors said Delaware County Children and Youth Services was already supervising the family after police were called to the couple's home for a domestic incident in January and found that Mason had been "doused" with seasoning salt all over his head and eyes.

Matthews and Grafton were remanded to the Delaware County Prison without bail.

- David Gambacorta and Stephanie Farr