1GIRL, 16, SLAIN
IN NORRISTOWN
Police in Montgomery County are seeking the person who fatally shot 16-year-old Dominique Devlin early yesterday on DeKalb Street near Spruce, in Norristown.
The girl was found with multiple gunshot wounds. She was taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead, police said.
Norristown police and the Montgomery County Detective Bureau are investigating. Police said they were trying to learn why Devlin was targeted. Anyone with information about the case may call Montgomery County Detectives at 610-278-3368.
2COPS: COCKFIGHTING
RING BUSTED
More than 45 roosters and other birds - believed to have been raised for a cockfighting operation - were seized yesterday from two rowhouses in a residential neighborhood straddling the Kensington and Hunting Park neighborhoods.
"It's not like somebody was just raising chickens," said Pennsylvania SPCA spokeswoman Wendy Marano. "It's pretty obvious by the way the roosters were dressed that they're fighting birds."
Undercover officers were tipped to the birds, Marano said. The PSPCA raided the property on Reese Street near Clearfield about 2 p.m.
In addition to 31 fighting roosters, 15 doves were seized at the property. Doves are also used for birdfighting, Marano said.
Officers then raided a second house four doors down and found 15 roosters, 15 rabbits and numerous baby chicks.
3EX-CON ARRESTED
ON MURDER COUNT
A 44-year-old ex-convict has been arrested and charged with shooting and killing a 24-year-old man during an argument July 2 in Southwest Philadelphia, police said.
Police said that James Bryant, of Parker Avenue near Cinnaminson Street, in Roxborough, shot Dion Bennett in the chest about 1 a.m. July 2 on Bonaffon Street near Buist Avenue. Bennett, who lived nearby, died a short time later at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Court records show that Bryant had a history of arrests and convictions, mostly for drug offenses
IN OTHER NEWS: 2 BODIES FOUND IN DELCO PARK
State Police are investigating the deaths of two people whose bodies were discovered shortly before 6 p.m. yesterday at the Palmer Arboretum in Thornbury Township, Delaware County.
The bodies were of a white man in his 50s from Newark, Del., and a white woman in her 80s, who was reported missing from her Kennett Square home on Tuesday.
They were found after a trooper from the State Police Media barracks found the man's car parked at the arboretum on Brinton Lake Road.
UPDATES: NOT-GUILTY PLEA
IN SKYLER'S SLAYING
James Lee Troutman, the Souderton man arrested in the May 9 rape- murder of 9-year-old Skyler Kauffman, pleaded not guilty yesterday at an arraignment in Montgomery County Court.
If he is found guilty of the first-degree murder charge against him, Troutman, 24, could face the death penalty.
PRISON FOR WOMAN
IN LIGHTER-FLUID ATTACK
Doreen Cuffie, arrested in April 2010 for dousing another woman's face and body with lighter fluid and setting her on fire, yesterday was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in state prison followed by 20 years of probation.
Cuffie, 46, pleaded guilty in May to attacking Donna Dempsey, 40, during an argument at Cuffie's South Philadelphia apartment.
- Staff and wire reports
