Double shooting in Nicetown, one in critical condition

Two men are shot in Nicetown; one

in critical condition

A tow-truck driver who was critically wounded by gunfire in the city's Nicetown section was able to drive himself and another shooting victim to the hospital late Monday afternoon, police said.

The 30-year-old driver was shot once in the chest about 5:45 p.m. in the 1400 block of Blavis Street, said Chief Inspector Scott Small. A 28-year-old man in the passenger seat suffered a graze wound in the shoulder.

The older man, who lives in the neighborhood, drove the pair to Temple University Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition Monday night but was expected to survive. His passenger was in stable condition.

The men identified their assailant by a nickname and the suspect was last seen driving away from the scene in a burgundy-colored Saturn Ion, Small said. - Robert Moran
Family ordered to pay $600,000 in killing of boy, 6

TOMS RIVER, N.J. - The parents of a New Jersey boy who was 4 when he fatally shot a 6-year-old neighbor have been ordered to pay nearly $600,000 to the slain youth's family.

Anthony and Melissa Senatore also will have to pay punitive damages to Brandon Holt's parents under the ruling issued Monday. But that amount hasn't been determined.

The rulings came in a wrongful-death suit brought by Holt's family. The Senatores were ordered to pay $572,588.

Anthony Senatore has admitted keeping a loaded .22-caliber rifle unlocked in his bedroom, where his son found it in April 2013. The boy took it outside and shot Brandon Holt once in the head. The child died the next day. Senatore received a three-year prison term last year after he pleaded guilty to child endangerment.

-Associated Press