Posted on 11/24/2007 6:28:27 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
Thanksgiving turned bloody for some city residents, with one man slain in Mill Creek, two children playing with a gun seriously injured in Fairhill and four people hospitalized after a family fracas in East Germantown. As reported in yesterday's paper, Coy Sharpe, 50, of Parrish Street near 48th, was found shot in the stomach shortly before 4 a.m. on Parrish Street near Ramsey, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police knew of no and had no suspects.
At 9:20 p.m., an 11-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy were seriously injured when a gun discharged as they played with it inside a home on Marshall Street near Cumberland, police said.
The boy, who was shot once in the face, was in stable condition at Episcopal Hospital yesterday, while the girl, shot in the left wrist, was treated at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children.
Police were seeking another teenage boy who was possibly involved in the incident.
About an hour later, three women and a man were stabbed
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Bush’s fault!
Didnt you hear Governor Eddie Rendell last week? Its the guns..we have to get rid of the guns.
It has nothing to do with a crook of a mayor who is more interested in lining his own pockets and that of his familiy than the welfare of the city.
oh Rendell... I thought you were talking about Detroit's Kwame Kilpatrick.
Quagmire. Pull out now!
There is no plan to win the war in Philadelphia triangle.
Streets lied, people died.
Very interesting article.
The sitting police commissioner is asking the tools (err, I mean) citizens of Philly to get off the plantation and stand up for their city and clean the cesspool up. I would say that he is pretty much admitting the criminal element is running the show in these ethnic areas.
I wonder how well "conflict resolution" works against a gang banger with a 9mm and a attitude
Probably not very well.............
At 15 years old, your aren’t a child innocently “playing” with a gun, playing Russian roulette maybe.
It all depends on what the meaning of the word "no" isn't.
Philly had 432 murders in 1995.
Philly was forced to accept to Pa.'s right to law in 1995 and rather late in the year IIRC. Anyway, Philly's murder rate started dropping as you see by the chart in the last link.
Just a coincidence I'm sure.
I was stuck at night in Philly years ago. I’m big and I wasn’t dressed very nice.
Every person I came up to in the street to ask for directions ran away. One guy was on a bike and almost got hit by traffic to get away.
I’m grateful that I’m in the safe haven of Baghdad instead of being in that war zone, Philadelphia.
I saw a bumper sticker that was new to me. "Guns kill people like the spoon Rosie O'Donnel uses made her fat."
When the perps are done practicing in Philly, they can come to Detroit for the real ‘thang’.
However, I'm not joining the ranks until it's dire.
Have no fear .. Chief Ramsey will be here
Former Police Chief Ramsey Heads to Philadelphia
http://dcist.com/2007/11/15/former_chief_ra.php
ARM THE PHILLY BOY SCOUTS!
/WHAT sarcasm?
Yea ain’t it interesting that a lot of our Troops feel safer in Baghdad than they would in many of our democrat-party controlled cities?
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