TWO MEN who survived being shot on a SEPTA train last month testified during a preliminary hearing Thursday that the incident started as sports-trash talk but quickly escalated.
Gunman Matthew Early, 18, was held for trial on two counts of attempted murder and related charges by Municipal Judge William Austin Meehan Jr., who also dropped a conspiracy-to-commit-murder charge at the request of defense attorney Jennifer Powell Mondesire.
Tremaine Fortune, 35, said that while he and two friends were standing on the westbound Market-Frankford El train talking about the Dec. 12 Philadelphia 76ers-Chicago Bulls game they had just attended, Eric Early, 17, shouted for him to "Shut the f--- up, old head! We don't want to hear nothing about the mother-[f---ing] Bulls game!"
