9-year-old daughter of Phila. drug kingpin slain
The 9-year-old daughter of Philadelphia drug kingpin Kaboni Savage is dead, the apparent victim of an unrelated turf war in York, Pa. Ciara Savage of Lancaster was fatally shot on Mother's Day when she got caught in a dispute between two local gangs, York Detective Jeff Spence said. She was playing on a sidewalk.
The 9-year-old daughter of Philadelphia drug kingpin Kaboni Savage is dead, the apparent victim of an unrelated turf war in York, Pa. Ciara Savage of Lancaster was fatally shot on Mother's Day when she got caught in a dispute between two local gangs, York Detective Jeff Spence said. She was playing on a sidewalk.
Police said they doubted there was any connection to her father, whose jailhouse threats about killing the families of rivals and law enforcement officials made him a notorious figure in Philadelphia courts.
"It had nothing to do with her or Kaboni," Spence said. "It was just . . . two factions of street urchins. There was a fight the night before at a bar, and these guys went back to retaliate."
Kaboni Savage is serving a 30-year term at a high-security prison in Florence, Colo., for drug trafficking and witness intimidation stemming from a 2005 trial. Prosecutors filed a new indictment last month charging him and others with the October 2004 arson deaths of six relatives of rival dealer Eugene Coleman. - AP