Philadelphia police have solved at least one part of a 65-year-old mystery — they have identified a young boy found dead and stuffed into a box in the city in 1957. Investigators used DNA and intricate genealogical sleuthing to uncover the boy’s name, KYW reports, and criminal charges may be filed in his death. Philadelphia …
Eleven Temple University students were robbed at gunpoint early Friday morning at an off-campus apartment in Philadelphia. Police said they were called to the building at about 7 a.m., where they learned that the six women residents of the apartment were joined by three of their boyfriends and two more women were were sleeping over. …
A Philadelphia man has been charged with attempted murder and endangering the welfare of children for allegedly shooting the mother of his children in the face while the kids — ages 1 to 8 — were in the apartment. Karell Young reportedly shot the 29-year-old mother of three of his four children Saturday morning; the …
Philadelphia police are looking for a man who crashed his car along Roosevelt Boulevard early Friday morning, killing his passenger, and then trying to rip the license plate from the wreck. Witnesses told police they saw the Toyota Scion traveling southbound “at a high rate of speed” and “swerving all over the road” shortly before …
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 …
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. …
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 …
