Cops: Man stabbed wife to death

1COPS: MAN KILLED WIFE

A Cheltenham Township man turned himself in to police and was charged with killing his wife early yesterday, police said.

Clive Thompson allegedly stabbed his wife, Olivia, 26, about 12:30 a.m. in their apartment on North John Russell Circle while their two sons were inside. Police said that Thompson told his sons to go in their room and shut the door. He fled and called a friend who found Olivia Thompson in the master bedroom bleeding from a stomach wound, police said.

Police found the murder weapon - an 11-inch knife - under the bed, according to a news release. Thompson admitted the crime, police said.

He was charged with murder and related offenses. Authorities did not release a motive for the stabbing.

2POLICE KILL SHOOTING SUSPECT

Police said that they shot and killed an armed bicyclist Monday night who had been firing at a pedestrian in the city's Fairhill section.

About 11:05 p.m., patrol officers in a marked vehicle on Lehigh Avenue near 5th Street saw a man on foot being chased by Alex Salgado, 19, who was on a bicycle, said police spokesman Lt. Ray Evers.

The chase ended in the parking lot of a Hess gas station, where Salgado refused to drop his gun when confronted by police, Evers said. One officer fired his weapon and shot Salgado twice in the chest, police said.

Salgado, of Birch Street near 8th, was taken to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:11 a.m.

The man he was chasing fled and has not yet been identified, Evers said.

3TEENAGE GIRL SHOT IN JAW

A 14-year-old girl who was shot in her jaw Monday night in Hunting Park is expected to survive her injuries, according to police.

The girl was leaving a Chinese restaurant at Darien Street and Hunting Park Avenue about 10:30, when she heard two gunshots and saw people running toward Hunting Park, police said.

The teen realized that she had been shot in the jaw, and her parents took her to St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, where she was listed in stable condition, police said.

4FIGHT OVER BOYFRIEND LEADS TO STABBING

One woman stabbed another in the parking lot of a uniform-and-medical-scrub-clothing store in Delaware County Monday night, police said.

About 10:45 p.m., police were called to the parking lot of the Work 'n Gear store on MacDade Boulevard near Cooke Avenue, Glenolden, where a 26-year-old woman was found bleeding from her face.

She was taken to Crozer-Chester Medical Center, where she was treated for a punctured lung, a large cut to her cheek and one to her left arm, police said. She was listed in stable condition yesterday.

Police said that the victim had been fighting with Myla Wilkins, 20, over a man they had both dated when Wilkins pulled out a knife and stabbed her.

Wilkins, of Philadelphia, was charged with aggravated assault and related offenses and was being held in Delaware County Prison in lieu of $200,000 bail.

-Stephanie Farr