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An armed 20-year-old man was shot by Camden police after a brief foot pursuit Tuesday afternoon, a spokesman for the Camden County Prosecutor's Office said. Around 2 p.m., Camden police made a car stop in the area of 32d Street and Westfield Avenue, said spokesman Jason Laughlin. The driver in the stopped car "put the vehicle in reverse and drove backwards into the police car," Laughlin said. Armed with a gun, the motorist ran from the scene with three officers in pursuit, jumping over several fences before encountering two other officers who had "circled around and cut him off," Laughlin said.

An armed 20-year-old man was shot by Camden police after a brief foot pursuit Tuesday afternoon, a spokesman for the Camden County Prosecutor's Office said. Around 2 p.m., Camden police made a car stop in the area of 32d Street and Westfield Avenue, said spokesman Jason Laughlin. The driver in the stopped car "put the vehicle in reverse and drove backwards into the police car," Laughlin said. Armed with a gun, the motorist ran from the scene with three officers in pursuit, jumping over several fences before encountering two other officers who had "circled around and cut him off," Laughlin said.

NAIROBI, Kenya - Gunmen in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa shot dead a Muslim cleric accused by Washington and the United Nations of supporting al-Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia, sparking rioting by youths in which one person died and at least one police car was burned. The killing Monday of Aboud Rogo fits into a pattern of extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances of suspected terrorists that allegedly are being orchestrated by Kenyan police, Kenyan human rights groups say. Rogo was shot dead as he drove with his family in Mombasa, the cleric's lawyer, Mbugua Mureithi, told the Associated Press.

A N ABINGTON Township police officer was hospitalized and an alleged bank robber was in custody Friday, after a car chase that began in Jenkintown and "wound all over Philadelphia," police said. Abington Deputy Police Chief John Livingood said that about 11:15 a.m. Aaron K.M. Thomas, 47, of West Philly, went into the PNC Bank on Old York Road near Township Line, tossed a plastic bag on the teller's counter, and said: "Fill it up. " He left the bank with an undisclosed amount of cash and drove southbound on Broad Street in a black Range Rover.

An Abington Township police officer was hospitalized and an alleged bank robber in custody Friday after a car chase that began in Jenkintown and "wound all over Philadelphia," police said. Police identified the suspect as Aaron K.M. Thomas, 47, of the 100 block of North 54th Street in West Philadelphia. He was awaiting arraignment Friday on robbery and related offenses, according to Abington Township Deputy Police Chief John Livingood. Livingood said that about 11:15 a.m. a man went into the PNC Bank at 123 Old York Rd., tossed a plastic bag onto the teller's counter, and said: "Fill it up. " No threats were made, no note was shown, and no bank employees were injured, Livingood said.

PHILADELPHIA Woman hurt in horse-carriage crash A woman was seriously injured Friday afternoon when a horse-drawn carriage and a car collided in Old City, the Fire Department reported. The accident occurred about 3:45 p.m. on 3rd Street near Callowhill, officials said. The unidentified woman, whose age was not immediately available, was seriously injured; authorities, however, could not elaborate on her injuries. Fire officials said she was taken by medics to Hahnemann University Hospital.

A man who had barricaded himself all day Sunday in a South Philadelphia rowhouse along with his two children surrendered to police around 5:30 p.m. Police came to the house in the 1800 block of Dickinson Street shortly after 10:15 a.m., after residents of the block saw that the man had allegedly killed a cat from the neighborhood, set it on fire and hung it on a fence on the side of his house, neighbors said. Police have not released the man's identity. He agreed to leave the house with his two sons, believed to be ages 1 and 4. He entered a police car with the boys.

When Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan opened up for questions Tuesday's news conference announcing an antiviolence task force, the first queries came not from reporters but from Chester City residents. "After today, are you guys going to forget about us?" asked Laura Fisher, 42. Tanien Washington, 35, wanted to know where the police are when you need them. "Last night we had gunfire around here for 15 minutes. I never heard a police car," Washington said.

OVER A PARTICULARLY VIOLENT weekend in the city, when temperatures soared - and apparently so did tempers - four people were killed and at least 13 other people were shot. The Daily News on Tuesday reported that the homicide count this year climbed to its highest level since Commissioner Charles Ramsey took charge of the Police Department in 2008. Looking at figures from last Sunday compared with the same date in 2011, the paper found that the number of homicides had increased by 23 percent.