City Shootings
A massive amount of violence on Sunday left five dead and eighteen wounded. Sunday’s violence has left a top city police official puzzled.
Most of the violence began over what William Blackburn, Chief Inspector of Detectives, called “a senseless argument.”
“Arguments are still the dominate motive”, he said in a press conference Monday, “not just for the homicides, but for the shootings.”
After Blackburn was asked to elaborate about violence on recent weekends, Blackburn said, “I’m not going to blame weather conditions. I’m not a sociologist.”
This year, Philadelphia has recorded 101 homicides, down from 131 for the comparable period last year. This Sunday’s total included four homicides from shootings, two of them erupting in or near bars. Philadelphia has earned the nick name killadelphia because of how many homicides occur.
The violence began at 1:45 a.m. Sunday, police were called to Charlie B’s Bar and Grill on the 4900 block of North Broad Street in Logan. There, police found 37 year old Marcus Davis suffering from a gun shot wound to the head. Davis, taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center, was pronounced dead fifteen minutes later.
Close to the same time, a block away, police found a twenty eight year old man with a gunshot wound to his back. The victim, who was not identified, was reported in stable condition at Einstein.
At 2 a.m., police said David DiPrimo, twenty four years old, opened fire outside a South Philadelphia bar after an argument over a woman. DiPrimo wounded four men outside McDaniel’s on Second Street, police said; two of the victims have been treated and released, the other two are in critical condition.
Philadelphia police charged DiPrimo, of the 2600 block of South 28th Street, with attempted homicide, aggravated assault and simple assault. DiPrimo is being held on a $1 million bail.
A little after 3 a.m., police were called to the 6800 block of Limekiln Pike in West Oak Lane and found Tyrone Miller, forty three years old, who had been shot three times in the face and chest. Miller was pronounced dead at the scene. Police have no motive or suspect in the slaying.
At 4:02 a.m., police officers on patrol spotted a woman kicking a fallen man in the head at a Sunoco gas station on the 5000 block of North Broad Street. Louis Campbell, sixty six years old, of Feltonville, died at 5:25 a.m. of injuries received in the beating. Nicole Wilson, twenty six years old, of Olney, was arrested and charged with murder.
About 1:30 p.m., housing police in West Philadelphia were tipped to a shooting at a Busticq Avenue apartment complex. Investigators found resident Robert McNair, forty eight years old, dead in the lobby of multiple gunshot wounds. Detectives have identified the suspects as Klaeem Smity, twenty eight years old, and Brandon Brown, twenty three years old.
At 5:49 p.m., police dispatchers sent officers to Kensington to investigate a report of a shooting. Kalis Leslie, fifteen, of Southwest Philadelphia, was found unresponsive near the intersection of Cambria and Amber Streets, Leslie, who had a single gunshot wound to the chest, was taken to Temple University Hospital and pronounced dead.
Philadelphia police found a second victim at the scene, an eighteen year old man, and took him to Temple, where he was in critical condition with gunshot wounds to his chest and shoulder.
At 10:25 p.m., in South Philadelphia, a twenty one year old man was shot once in the head on the 1800 block of McCain Street. He was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was in stable condition.
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