Fire crews responding to a car fire Saturday night on a bike path in Philadelphia’s Fox Chase found a body inside the trunk. Police said car had been doused with an accelerant, probably gasoline, making it “clearly an intentional act,” WTFX reported. The man in the trunk had been shot once in the head, and …
A 22-year-old man has been accused of shooting his grandfather to death and then killing a second man two days later when he came to check on the grandfather. Philadelphia police said that Benjamin McMichael, 67, went into his grandson’s room on Thursday and objected to the condition of the room, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. …
Six members of a Philadelphia family were stabbed in their sleep early Friday morning. A 29-year-old man, a member of the family who also lived in the house, was arrested a short time later when he was found covered in blood three blocks away. The victims ranged in age from 26 to 55, the Philadelphia …
At least thirteen people, including seven children, were killed on Wednesday in a blaze at a Pennsylvania rowhouse that also left two people injured. WCAU reported that the fire occurred in Fairmont, a neighborhood in Philadelphia, in a two-unit rowhome. It is believed that 26 people resided in those two units, which are owned by …
Five teenagers have been arrested after they allegedly carjacked a US Congresswoman from Pennsylvania at gunpoint Wednesday afternoon and took off with her vehicle. Mary Gay Scanlon, who represents Pennsylvania’s 5th Congressional District in Congress — which includes part of south Philadelphia — was not hurt in the incident, WPVI reported. Scanlon, 62, said she …
A Philadelphia man shot and killed his wife early Friday and then barricaded himself in the basement, where children were hiding in a closet. Philadelphia Police Capt Bill Fisher said officers responded to a call about a possible shooting just before 1 a.m. in the Northern Liberties neighborhood, according to WCAU. SWAT officers entered the …
Update: 9:30 a.m.: A 6-year-old girl who was in the back seat of a car when it was stolen Tuesday night was found safe Wednesday morning, Pennsylvania State Police said. The Amber Alert issued for Sahara Little was cancelled. Investigators have not provided information about how or where the girl was located. Update: AMBER ALERT: …
A 17-year-old boy suspected of killing a Tempe University student over the weekend turned himself in to police on Wednesday after a warrant was issued for his arrest. Philadelphia police say that Latif Williams tried to carjack Samuel Collington Sunday as the Temple senior was returning from Thanksgiving with his family, as CrimeOnline previously reported. …
The city of Philadelphia has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the fatal shooting of a pregnant woman who had just returned home from her baby shower Saturday night. The 32-year-old woman, identified by friends as Jessica Thomas, was seven months pregnant, investigators said. She was shot in the head …
A mother of four is in critical condition after she was shot twice in the back at her home earlier this week. Her 1-year-old daughter was also wounded in the shooting, shot once in the stomach, and is in stable condition at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The 33-year-old woman’s boyfriend told police that he had stepped …
A Philadelphia judge last week ruled that a lawsuit filed by the family of Ellen Greenberg against the medical examiner who ruled she died by suicide — with 20 stab wounds to her body — can go forward. The 27-year-old first grade teacher was found dead in her Manayunk apartment on January 26, 2011, after …
Philadelphia police on Monday released surveillance video showing the brutal assault on a deliveryman last week by a group of teenagers who surrounded him on bicycles. Zach Lean, 38, is in a medically induced coma fighting for his life at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, ABC6 reported. On Saturday, one of the teens involved in the …
