NEWS
February 8, 2001 | JIM MacMILLAN/ DAILY NEWS
Police are investigating a lunch-hour drive-by shooting yesterday that left a city man dead. Kevin Jackson, 22, whose address was unavailable, was dead on arrival at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after the 11:55 a.m. attack in front of a church at 17th and Morris streets in South Philadelphia. Jackson was sitting in a 1998 silver BMW when a gunman in a gray sport-utility vehicle shot him, police said. He was shot several times in the neck, chest and left arm, police said.
NEWS
July 23, 2011
A drive-by shooting at a North Philadelphia playground put a teenager in the hospital Friday afternoon, according to police. The 18-year-old was in the East Poplar Playground on the 800 block of North Ninth Street when a burgundy car with tinted windows drove by and someone inside fired into the park, said Officer Jillian Russell, spokeswoman for the Philadelphia police. The teen was grazed by a bullet and released that day, she said. The shooter remains at large, and police have no description.
NEWS
March 4, 2011 | Inquirer Staff Report
A 21-year-old man was critically wounded in a drive-by shooting in North Philadelphia late Thursday, police said. After regaining consciousness, the victim told investigators the last thing he recalled while walking down the 1000 block of West Huntingdon Street about 11:35 p.m. was hearing a racing car engine and gunshots. Hit in the right neck, the man collapsed on the street. He was taken to Temple University Hospital, where he was reported in critical but stable condition. Police said they do not have a description of the car. Anyone with information should call Central Detectives at 215-686-3093.
NEWS
May 16, 1991 | By John P. Martin, Special to The Inquirer
A county court jury has convicted a Bristol Borough man of aggravated assault for a drive-by shooting apparently prompted by a pizza order that went bad. After deliberating nearly two hours on Tuesday, the jurors also found Patrick J. Kelly, 44, of the 300 block of Market Street, guilty of reckless endangerment, possession of instruments of crime, simple assault and terroristic threats. They acquitted him of attempted homicide and attempted voluntary manslaughter in connection with the Jan. 10 shooting along Otter Street.
NEWS
November 13, 1996 | By Wendy Walker, INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT
A gunfight on the 600 block of Merchant Street early Sunday left a man who is a suspect in an August drive-by shooting seriously hurt with 11 bullet wounds, police reported. Police from at least a dozen municipal departments in Chester County, as well as state police, helped control the large crowd that gathered at the scene. One man was arrested shortly after the 3 a.m. shooting and police are looking for a second suspect. Several cars were hit by bullets. Police found one .380-caliber and two 9mm handguns near the scene.
NEWS
July 5, 2000 | By Shankar Vedantam, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
A 9-year-old girl was hit in the face by a bullet when she got caught in a drive-by shooting at Sixth and Pike Streets in North Philadelphia yesterday, police said. Tashzma Randolph was taken to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where she was still in the operating room late last night, police said. "She was just walking from the corner store at Sixth and Pike, and a crowd of three people came down, and two opened fire," said a detective who asked not to be named. "They were shooting at someone else, and she got caught in the crossfire.
NEWS
October 5, 1989 | By Joe O'Dowd, Jack McGuire and Sheila Simmons, Daily News Staff Writers
Five men standing on a street corner in North Philadelphia were shot and wounded last night by a group of gunmen who drove up in at least two cars and opened fire with an automatic weapon and a shotgun, police said. Police said they believed the shooting was drug-related, and members of OK Corral drug gangs in Hunting Park were being sought for questioning. But police said they had no evidence that the victims were anything but innocent bystanders hit by gunfire not meant for them.
NEWS
January 17, 1995 | by Scott Flander, Daily News Staff Writer
A 14-year-old boy was killed last night when a bullet from a drive-by shooting went through the door of a house and struck him as he was talking on the telephone, police said. The boy, Edwin Rodriguez, was hit in the face about 11:10 p.m. on Cornwall Street near American in Kensington. He was pronounced dead about 40 minutes later at Temple University Hospital. Police said the boy did not live at the house. Neighbors said he lived two blocks away. Police arriving at the scene didn't wait for an ambulance, but carried him in a stretcher to a police wagon, and then rushed him to the hospital.
NEWS
May 2, 2011 | By STEPHANIE FARR, farrs@phillynews.com 215-854-4225
Shots at a North Philadelphia basketball court yesterday turned from free throws to bloodshed when a drive-by shooting killed one man and injured a second. Two men in a burgundy car fired shots at 11:48 a.m. at the basketball court on the Whittier Playground at 27th and Clearfield streets, across the street from John Whittier Elementary School, police said. One player, a 25-year-old man, was shot once in the chest and once in the left side. He was pronounced dead at 6:07 p.m. at Temple University Hospital.
NEWS
October 9, 1990 | By Leon Taylor, Daily News Staff Writer
One North Philadelphia man was killed and two of his neighbors were wounded last night during a shooting incident on 24th Street, police said. Sterling Pinkett, 29, of Nicholas Street near 24th, was wounded once in his chest during the 9:42 p.m. shooting on 24th Street near Cecil B. Moore Avenue, police said. He was pronounced dead at 10:20 at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. Ernest Hammond, 20, was wounded in his left arm and left cheek, police said. Hammond flagged down a car and was taken to a relative's house on 28th Street near Thompson.