A man died Tuesday night after crashing his dirt bike into a fence in West Philadelphia.
The motorcyclist, initially identified only as 31 years old, was riding the dirt bike on the 3800 block of Parrish Street in the Mantua neighborhood when he lost control, struck a fence and was thrown from the bike.
He was transported to Presbyterian Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
A 12-year-old girl was shot once in the leg Tuesday evening as she walked out of a corner store in North Philadelphia, police said.
Two others, a 23-year-old man and a 31-year-old man, were also shot, police said. The 23-year-old was shot in the neck and is in critical condition. The other man suffered a bullet wound to the ankle.
The shooting apparently occurred over at least a two-block stretch, as a police spokeswoman identified the scene as the 3000 block of North Marshall Street while another police official said the girl was shot outside the bodega in the 600 block of West Clearfield Avenue.
The girl is in stable condition at St. Christopher Hospital, police said.
Her injury comes a couple weeks on the heels of shootings that left other children under the age of 13 were shot in Philadelphia neighborhoods. NBC10.com reported earlier this month that more than 20 children 12 or younger have been shot in the city since the start of 2015.
A day after a shootout on the Atlantic City Expressway left one man dead and four others hurt, with some victims going to a nearby Wawa for help, New Jersey State Police said five people were charged with weapons offenses as investigators found another vehicle possibly involved.
The crime scene stretched for miles in what state police called a "rolling shootout."
Five people were charged and the police investigation continued into Wednesday with more charges possible.
Troopers first received calls reporting a shooting along the expressway near milepost 12 in Egg Harbor Township shortly before 3 p.m. Monday. Around the same time, a bullet-riddled Ford Expedition — it was hit 21 times, according to police — missing a rear tire and windows, barreled into the parking lot of the Egg Harbor Township Wawa store along Tilton Road, witnesses said.
Inside were four men who pleaded for help from strangers.
"The driver said he was shot," witness Erwin Ashworth told NBC10's Ted Greenberg. "The passenger was hanging from the window... He said everybody was shot at least a couple times."
Bloodied clothes sat crumpled on the ground outside the truck where the victims were treated by medics. They were eventually transported to the Atlantic City Medical Center for treatment.
Around the same time, troopers were called to milepost 39 along the Garden State Expressway where they found Rosemund Octavius, 22, dead in the passenger seat of Anthony Hicks' Nissan Maxima. Hicks, who wasn't hurt, told police Octavius was shot while they drove on the expressway.
Investigators believe the shooting occurred on the AC Expressway eastbound between milepost 11 and milepost 12.
On Tuesday morning, police announced the arrest if Hicks, a resident of Mays Landing, on a series of weapons charges.
A police K-9 unit traced the Expedition's path to a location near the Wawa where investigators found several weapons — including an AK-style assault rifle — they believe are connected to the shooting, police said.
They also announced multiple weapons charges, including not being lawfully able to carry a firearm charges, against the occupants of the Expedition: Lenardo Caro, 24, of Little Egg Harbor Township; Yahshaun Stukes-Williams, 19, of Mays Landing; Shaun Stukes, 38, of Atlantic City; and a 16-year-old boy not identified since he's a minor.
The three men in the Expedition also face a charge of using a juvenile in a crime, troopers troopers said.
Each of the five suspects was held of $250,000 cash bail, said police.
The investigation continued, including the search for another vehicle. Witnesses told police a black Dodge Ram pickup truck that exited the highway in the Pleasantville area was also possibly involved. That pickup was recovered in Pleasantville Tuesday night but there were no further charges or arrests, said state police.
"It is not yet clear from which vehicles the shots were fired that killed Octavius or injured the people in the Expedition, so the current charges reflect the early phase of this case," state police said on Facebook.
Stukes and Stukes-Williams remained hospitalized Tuesday, police said.
One person was reportedly injured in a possible shooting at a bar in North Jersey on Wednesday morning.
The victim was reportedly shot in his or her leg at Donnie & Junior’s bar on Main Street in Lodi sometime before 2:30 a.m.
There was still a heavy police presence at the bar at 4:30 a.m. and police tape was hung up outside. Police were questioning employees and patrons and K9 units were at the scene.
It appeared police were looking for a suspect in a blue sports jersey.
It wasn’t immediately known what may have sparked a shooting.
A pair of good Samaritans bashed a car window open to free a sweltering 4-month-old girl from the backseat, who police say was left in the vehicle, windows up, doors locked, by her mother so she could go shopping.
The baby was left in the backseat of a minivan outside a Kohl's department store in Howell, New Jersey, Monday afternoon while her mother was inside shopping, authorities said.
Steve Eckel and Sara Mazzone heard the baby crying as they walked through the parking lot.
"I said oh my God there's a baby in the car, we need to do something," Mazzone told NBC 4 New York.
Eckel went and grabbed a sledgehammer from his car, which he used to knock out the van's passenger-side window.
Inside, the baby was wearing a onesie with wool blanket tucked up to her chest.
"Her head was like a tomato. Her head, fingers and her toes were all red," Eckel said.
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"I took the onesie and I soaked it with water," Mazzone said. "And an associate brought a bottle of water to me, and cooled down her feet and her neck and she started to perk up."
Police and other first responders were called. They tended to the sweltering baby, and took the baby's mother into custody when she returned from the store.
The woman did not come to door when NBC 4 New York went to her house to ask for comment.
Motorists jumped out of their cars to help people out of an overturned tractor-trailer on a Delaware highway Wednesday morning.
Witnesses jumped into action as they called 911 after the tractor-trailer flipped at the merge of Interstate 295 and southbound I-95 when he lost control around 1:10 a.m.
The big rig crossed three lanes of traffic, striking a car and a guardrail before it flipped on the ramp to Delaware Route 141/U.S. Route 202 in Newport, spilling some fuel on the roadway.
"I didn’t see it coming, it happened so fast," said the driver struck by the big rig.
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The two men in the truck and the other driver all suffered minor injuries. One man could be seen being taken from the scene in a neck brace.
Delaware State Police warned motorists that the ramp to Route 141 would be closed for some time as crews work to clear the scene and investigate exactly what happened.
A trail of motor oil led some eagle-eyed police officers to track down an SUV authorities say struck a man on a motorcycle in Philadelphia late Tuesday night before fleeing the scene and leaving the victim to die on the street.
The deadly incident unfolded shortly before 11:30 p.m. in the city's Juniata Park neighborhood, when police say a GMC Yukon SUV crashed into a 58-year-old man riding his motorcycle near Whitaker Avenue and Loudon Street. Chief Inspector Scott Small said the Yukon hit the man -- hard enough to make him fly out of his sneakers and throw him 10 yards -- then turn off Whitaker Avenue and take off.
The man was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash and died of his injuries a short time later at Albert Einstein Medical Center, police said.
Officers who responded to the deadly crash found a cache of clues pointing to the suspect littering the street, including a GMC emblem that apparently broke off the SUV in the crash and a trail of leaked oil and antifreeze. The cops followed the oil and antifreeze trail, and it stretched about five blocks, to Rorer Street near Ruscomb. On that block, Small said, police found it: a badly damaged GMC Yukon sat parked, unattended, in a rear alley on the block.
The driver had apparently made slapstick attempt to hide the vehicle, but the evidence was clear, Small said.
"There was no license plate on the vehicle, so it appears the operator or someone removed the license plate," he said. "However, the GMC emblem missing from the striking vehicle, we found it on the scene at the accident next to the motorcycle."
Police towed the car to their lot for further investigation, and Small said they will use the vehicle identification number to identify the owner. A witness reported seeing a man driving the SUV at the time of the crash, he added.
Solving hit-and-runs, which occur on a more than daily basis in the city, is a rarity. An NBC10 Investigators probe last year found that in 2015 alone, there were more than 9,000 hit-and-runs (including those in which only property damage occurs) reported in Philadelphia. The District Attorney's Office, on average, prosecutes between 500 and 600 hit-and-run cases per year.
At the intersection of Whitaker Avenue and Loudon Street, where Tuesday night's deadly crash occurred, there were two reported hit-runs since late 2013, one of which involved an injury, according to NBC10 Investigator Mitch Blacher's report.
A block south, the intersection of Whitaker and Wyoming avenues, is a frequent backdrop for hit-and-runs: That intersection, the investigation found, logged at least five of the crashes in less than a year between 2014 and 2015.
View a map of hit-and-runs and read more about NBC10's Investigation into the crashes here.
The CEO of Mylan Pharmaceuticals announced the launch of its own cheaper version of the EpiPen this week on the heels of a price hike uproar. But for years, Mylan and its business partners have fought fiercely behind the scenes to block a cheaper generic from hitting the market, NBC New York's I-Team reported.
Documents reviewed by the I-Team show the Pennsylvania-based drug firm paid for opposition research on a generic EpiPen proposed by Teva, an Israeli pharmaceutical company.
The study concluded the Teva product would have a 93 percent failure rate.
But experts on research methodology say the study has significant flaws, including the lack of any control group, the lack of any statistical significance, and the fact that study participants were instructed "not to actually manipulate the device or perform the injection."
In an email to the I-Team, Nina Devlin, a company spokeswoman, defended the integrity of the study, saying it "offered a valid examination" of Teva's product design and how the injector might be used in an emergency.
The City of Newark is putting teal bows on lamp posts along East Main Street to help raise awareness for ovarian cancer.
University of Delaware students will help Newark Mayor Polly Sierer put the bows up Wednesday. The ribbons are a part of "Turn The Towns Teal," a national campaign to promote awareness for ovarian cancer.
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One might say they were buzz-ted.
A swarm of bees forced a police department out of its offices in northeastern Pennsylvania.
The (Scranton) Times-Tribune reports Carbondale police had to abandon their station Tuesday when the bees arrived. [[211053881, C]]
Most settled into cracks and crevices in the City Hall's third-floor brick exterior, but some others were able to get inside the building and into the first-floor police station.
A beekeeper removed more than 400 bees on Tuesday, while officers worked from other offices in the building. The expert was expected to return Wednesday to remove the rest of the bees from the building's brick exterior.
The station was to remain closed to the public Wednesday.
One of Montgomery County’s smallest school districts won’t be sporting a high school varsity football team this season as Springfield Township High School canceled its season due to too few students wanting to participate to keep the players on the field safe.
Jason Pane, the school’s assistant principal and athletic director, made the announcement “with a heavy heart” in a letter sent home to parents Monday night.
“At this time we simply do not have enough players to safely play this year,” wrote Pane.
The announcement came just days after the Spartans lost a scrimmage to Octorara High School 47-20.
“This decision was delayed as long as possible in hopes that more students would join the roster,” wrote Pane.
The school located along Paper Mill Road in Oreland – a less than five-minute drive from Philadelphia’s Chestnut Hill – has for year sported one of the smaller student bodies. They were set to officially kick off their season against another smaller Montco public high school, Lower Moreland, this weekend.
“I sympathize with our players, coaches, and the community as Friday nights in Spartan Stadium have been a staple of my life for the past several years. I am especially apologetic to this year’s senior class and to our coaching staff,” wrote Pane. “They have invested multiple years in preparation for this season and their time and effort does not go unnoticed. I appreciate the alumni association and the booster club, as both organizations have volunteered their time to help prepare our Spartans for the 2016-2017 season. I would like to thank the parents of our players for the way they have supported their children and the team.
“This decision was very difficult to make, but it is what is best for our students that remains my primary focus. I take pride in fulfilling my obligation to the community and the school district in regards to protecting the health and well-being of our students. The actions of our students and community consistently remind me what Spartan Pride really means.”
The school still plans to play its schedule junior varsity schedule in hopes of developing players for a return to varsity football, said Pane.
A patient accused a Jersey Shore GYN of inappropriately touching her after an exam, and local prosecutors charged the doctor with harassment.
Police said an investigation led to the charges after a woman reported that Dr. Alfred B. Parchment inappropriately touched her after an examination at Brick Women's Physicians, Obstetrics and Gynecology. Police arrested Parchment, 53, of Toms River, for the charge on Tuesday.
The charge is a "disorderly persons" offense for harassment by offensive touching, according to a news release from the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office, and Parchment was released with a summons to appear in court in Brick Township at a later date. Officials said they notified the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners of the charge.
