Gunman kills 1, injures 5 at Nicetown bar

A man who was booted from a Nicetown bar for smoking a cigarette returned with a gun Sunday shortly after midnight and killed one patron and wounded five others.

The dead man was Carl Sharper, 43, of North Philadelphia, police said. Sharper, who apparently did not know the shooter, was planning to be married this summer.

Two other victims were a woman, 44, shot multiple times in the abdomen and a man, 32, shot twice in the back, police said. Both were in critical condition at Temple University Hospital.

The gunman also shot a 36-year-old man once in his right calf and grazed two women, ages 20 and 27, police said. Those three were in stable condition.

Before the shooting, a bouncer had kicked the man out of the Genesis Bar, 4421 Wayne Ave., police said. He returned shortly before 12:45 a.m. and began shooting.

The front door of the bar had been sprayed with bullets.

"This is still unbelievable - I don't know. He was such a very, very good person," Sharper's fiancee, Drexie Charles, told 6ABC's Action News Sunday afternoon.

They were to be married Aug. 27.

"I still can't believe that he's gone. I have to actually see that he's not here. I can't believe he's gone," she said.

Witnesses described the shooter as a bald, bearded black man in his 30s, 6 feet tall, wearing a white shirt and khaki pants.

No arrests had been made, police said late Sunday.