James Clark

John Paul was a family man. Neighbors on his Strawberry Mansion block said that they rarely saw Paul apart from his wife, Sherrell, and that no matter where the couple went, their two young sons were always in tow. "I'd see them at the grocery store, taking the kids to football," said Raymond Marrero, who until recently lived across the street from the family's house in the 3200 block of Cecil B. Moore Avenue. "Even if it was just going to wash the laundry, they were always all together as a family.

A man who fell to the ground after gunfire rang out during the taping of a rap video Thursday night in Olney was not shot at all, it turns out. Police on Friday said the man tripped or stumbled as the crowd of more than 100 people panicked and tried to flee the scene. The man, whose name has not been released, had the misfortune to land near a car that ran over him. He died from injuries suffered during the accident, said Philadelphia Capt. James Clark, head of the homicide unit.

POLICE BELIEVE that the killers who gunned down two teenagers as they took a joyride on a stolen four-wheeler in the Fairhill section of North Philadelphia Monday night targeted the boys for death. Two gunmen with an AK-47 assault rifle and 9 mm handgun blasted at least 30 rounds at Dexter Bowie, 17, of 8th Street near Indiana, and Johnathan Stokley, 18, of Darien Street near Packer, as they rode an all-terrain vehicle on 9th Street near Cambria at about 8 p.m., homicide Capt.

To her friends, she was the one who made them laugh and feel special. To her chemistry professor at West Chester University, she was the well-prepared junior from Philadelphia who, in class three nights ago, "was really engaged and following this discussion of how nanoparticles grow into raindrops. " And now, to Philadelphia police, Selene K. Raynor, 21, is the 241st homicide of the year, a victim of a boyfriend with a troubled past and a semiautomatic pistol. Raynor was pregnant.

A MOTHER OF FOUR who owned her own business was gunned down in Overbrook Sunday by a teenage boy with a neighborhood grudge, police said. Hafeezah Nunrid-Din, 31, a "totally innocent bystander," was killed by two of the 10 bullets fired by Daniel Shelley, 19, about 8 p.m. on Malvern Avenue near 58th Street, Overbrook, said Homicide Capt. James Clark. Police said Shelley, who rode up to the scene on a bicycle, had been aiming for a group of men from a different neighborhood, but instead hit Nunrid-Din.

Police arrested the alleged gunman Friday in a triple slaying at a West Philadelphia grocery store and issued a murder warrant for a second man wanted in the September killings. Ibrahim Muhammed, described as a 31-year-old career criminal, allegedly shot the owner of Lorena's Grocery, his wife, and her sister during a robbery Sept. 6, police said Friday. Muhammed, of Southwest Philadelphia, who had 18 previous arrests, had been taken into custody Thursday afternoon on an unrelated drug charge.

Philadelphia police said Thursday that they were closing in on the man they say shot and killed the owner of a North Philadelphia check-cashing store last weekend. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of 31-year-old Eric Locke, Capt. James Clark said at a news conference. Locke lives a block away from the B & R Check Cashing store at 26th and Sterner Streets, where 53-year-old Joel Blumer was killed Saturday. Blumer, a married father of two who lived in Bucks County, was approached by a man with a gun as he was opening his store at 9 a.m. The gunman announced a robbery and shot Blumer in the face.

At 6-foot-6 and 300 pounds, Siegfried Moore would be an undesirable opponent in a fight. But the brute, who police say used his bulk to overpower and kill two people earlier this month, picked the wrong prey on Aug. 4 when he pounced on Devaughn Smith. As Moore stabbed him repeatedly, police say, Smith was able to turn the blade on his attacker and plunge it deep into his stomach. Smith, 19, died of his injuries. Moore fled - and might have gotten away with murder. But his victim's blow punctured his lung, and he needed a doctor's attention.

A noise in the night awoke Sherrell Rhine-Paul from her sleep early this morning and put her in the middle of a living nightmare inside her Strawberry Mansion home, police said. By the end of it her husband was dead, and her body was ravaged by up to 10 bullets. Around 3:45 a.m., two men gained entry to the house on Cecil B. Moore Avenue near 32nd Street that Rhine-Paul, 39, shared with her husband, John Paul Jr., 35, and their two young children, police said. Homicide Capt.

Homicide detectives were interviewing a possible suspect last night in the slaying of a city man shot at a hotel near Philadelphia International Airport. The victim, Tyre West, 28, of Hunting Park, had been at the Residence Inn by Marriott on Wednesday with his girlfriend and another man, said Capt. James Clark of the homicide unit. "We believe all three of the individuals had some type of liaison with each other, they knew each other in some way," Clark said. "What brought them there, I'm not prepared to say quite yet. " Sometime during the night, he said, the man tried to rob West's 28-year-old girlfriend at gunpoint.

A man who fell to the ground after gunfire rang out during the filming of a rap video in North Philadelphia on Thursday night was not shot at all, it turns out. Police on Friday said the man tripped or stumbled as the crowd of more than 100 people panicked and tried to flee the scene. The man, whose name has not been released, had the misfortune to land near a car that ran over him. He died from injuries suffered during the accident, said Philadelphia Capt. James Clark, head of the homicide unit.

A man who fell to the ground after gunfire rang out during the taping of a rap video Thursday night in Olney was not shot at all, it turns out. Police on Friday said the man tripped or stumbled as the crowd of more than 100 people panicked and tried to flee the scene. The man, whose name has not been released, had the misfortune to land near a car that ran over him. He died from injuries suffered during the accident, said Philadelphia Capt. James Clark, head of the homicide unit.

POLICE BELIEVE that the killers who gunned down two teenagers as they took a joyride on a stolen four-wheeler in the Fairhill section of North Philadelphia Monday night targeted the boys for death. Two gunmen with an AK-47 assault rifle and 9 mm handgun blasted at least 30 rounds at Dexter Bowie, 17, of 8th Street near Indiana, and Johnathan Stokley, 18, of Darien Street near Packer, as they rode an all-terrain vehicle on 9th Street near Cambria at about 8 p.m., homicide Capt.

Philadelphia police said Thursday that they were closing in on the man they say shot and killed the owner of a North Philadelphia check-cashing store last weekend. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of 31-year-old Eric Locke, Capt. James Clark said at a news conference. Locke lives a block away from the B & R Check Cashing store at 26th and Sterner Streets, where 53-year-old Joel Blumer was killed Saturday. Blumer, a married father of two who lived in Bucks County, was approached by a man with a gun as he was opening his store at 9 a.m. The gunman announced a robbery and shot Blumer in the face.

John Paul was a family man. Neighbors on his Strawberry Mansion block said that they rarely saw Paul apart from his wife, Sherrell, and that no matter where the couple went, their two young sons were always in tow. "I'd see them at the grocery store, taking the kids to football," said Raymond Marrero, who until recently lived across the street from the family's house in the 3200 block of Cecil B. Moore Avenue. "Even if it was just going to wash the laundry, they were always all together as a family.

A NOISE in the night awoke Sherrell Rhine-Paul from her sleep early yesterday and put her in the middle of a living nightmare inside her Strawberry Mansion home, police said. By the end of it her husband was dead, and her body was ravaged by up to 10 bullets. About 3:45 a.m., two men entered the house, on Cecil B. Moore Avenue near 32nd Street, that Rhine-Paul, 39, shared with her husband, John Paul Jr., 35, and their two young children, police said. Homicide Capt.

TIFFANY GILLESPIE'S boyfriend wasn't happy that she was pregnant with his baby, so early yesterday he shot the 24-year-old mother of two in the head, leaving her dead in the basement of her South Philadelphia home, police said. Gillespie's mother found her at 2:40 a.m. with a single gunshot wound and called police to the house, on Mildred Street near Ritner. Gillespie's two young children and other family members were in the house at the time of the slaying, police said. "Immediately, detectives focused on her boyfriend, Aaron Fitzpatrick, with whom she's had a tumultuous relationship for several months," Homicide Capt.

Police arrested the alleged gunman Friday in a triple slaying at a West Philadelphia grocery store and issued a murder warrant for a second man wanted in the September killings. Ibrahim Muhammed, described as a 31-year-old career criminal, allegedly shot the owner of Lorena's Grocery, his wife, and her sister during a robbery Sept. 6, police said Friday. Muhammed, of Southwest Philadelphia, who had 18 previous arrests, had been taken into custody Thursday on an unrelated drug charge.