A man is fighting for his life and another is recovering after a double shooting in Philadelphia Saturday afternoon.
A 25-year-old man and a 48-year-old man were on the 2100 block of North 23rd street when an unidentified gunman opened fire.
The 25-year-old man was struck once in the chest and once in the right shoulder while the 48-year-old was struck once in the left index finger and once in the right forearm. Both men were taken to Temple University Hospital. The 25-year-old man is in critical condition while the 48-year-old is stable.
No weapons have been recovered and no arrests have been made.
A former president of a local little league was arrested after he allegedly stole money from his own organization.
William Berry, 52, of Hartly, Delaware, was arrested and charged with theft over $1,500, unlawful use of payment card over $1,500 and other related offenses.
Berry, who was president of the Dover Little League, allegedly stole money from the organization and its various fundraisers, using the league’s credit card to make unauthorized personal purchases totaling over $4,000.
Berry was released on $7,000 unsecured bond.
A year after the death of his son, Bryon Dickson still sticks to his nightly ritual.
“Every night when I go to work I say I love you,” Dickson told NBC10. “We miss you.”
On September 12, 2014, Dickson’s son Cpl. Bryon Dickson II and State Trooper Alex Douglass were shot in an ambush attack outside the Blooming Grove barracks in Pike County, Pennsylvania. Douglass survived the shooting. Cpl. Dickson died from his injuries.
“I think we’re holding our own,” Dickson’s father said. “But then now that it’s getting closer to the day, we have our moments.”
Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of the deadly shooting which sparked a 48-day manhunt. The suspect in the shooting, 32-year-old Eric Frein, was finally captured on October 30, 2014 at an abandoned airplane hangar.
Hundreds of police officers took part in the seven-week manhunt for Frein, including Stroud Area Regional Police Patrolman Steve Hettel.
“With police officers being taken down at random it’s always fresh in your mind,” Hettel told NBC10. “It doesn’t seem like it’s been a year.”
The manhunt impacted schools, tourist attractions and hunting season at surrounding towns and even forced Barrett Township to cancel a Halloween parade and trick-or-treating. A year after the event, locals are looking forward to a return to normalcy during the upcoming Fall season.
“Once the weather clears out and gets cooler and the leaves start to turn hopefully people will be back and we can start into a normal fall,” said George Traugh, General Manager of the Theo B. Price Country store in Cresco, Pennsylvania.
Meanwhile lawyers on both sides of the case are preparing for Frein’s trial which likely won’t begin until next year. Frein pleaded not guilty to all charges, including first degree murder and terrorism. Authorities are seeking the death penalty.
“There will be certainly wounds there probably forever that may not be ever fully healed,” said Pike County District Attorney Ray Tonkin.
Those wounds still sting for Cpl. Dickson’s family, including his two young sons and wife.
“What did you accomplish?” asked Dickson’s father. “Besides making two young boys go without their father now?”
Update, 9:19 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 13
Cleanup efforts continued in North Philadelphia Sunday morning after a four-foot water main burst Saturday night, pouring millions of gallons of water into the street.
Saturday's break, which happened about 8 p.m. near the site of the former Tastykake factory in the area of Hunting Park Avenue and Westmoreland Street, at the border of Tioga and Nicetown, was the second water main rupture in the neighborhood in lass than three months.
In June, a large water main also burst in the same area, flooding streets and local businesses, including Bakers Centre, a fairly new shopping center in the neighborhood, with 7 million gallons of water.
A Philadelphia Water Department official told NBC10's Jesse Gary that Saturday night's main break did not cause any evacuations or shut-downs of service, but it did briefly affect water pressure in the area.
"There were some low pressure issues. We didn't turn anyone's water off," John DiGiulio, a water department spokesman. "But when you have a main of this size break, sometimes pressure goes down in some homes."
Crews on Sunday morning were working on moving mud off of Hunting Park Avenue so that traffic could pass through. The main that burst is more than 100 years old.
A U-Haul business located in the old Tastykake warehouse said Sunday morning that although the building experienced severe flooding, none of the rental equipment was affected.
Officials are working to repair a large water main break near the former site of the Tastykake Factory.
The 48-inch main broke around 8:30 p.m. Saturday on Hunting Park Avenue and Westmoreland Street. So far no one has been evacuated.
"There were some low pressure issues," said John DiGiulio of the Philadelphia Water Department. "We didn't turn anyone's water off but when you have a main of this size break, sometimes pressure goes down in some homes. At about quarter to 10, everyone should have had full pressure back and restored in their homes and normal service."
The break caused flooding at the intersection, spilling an estimated 15 million gallons of water into the street. The water ripped away the edge of a nearby parking lot and pushed down a fence line.
The factory for Philly snack food company Tastykake was once located in the area. Another large water main break occurred near the location last June causing seven million gallons of water to flood the Bakers Square shopping center at Fox Street and Roberts Avenue.
While officials say the main that broke in June wasn't the same as the one that broke Saturday, they also say they were both part of the same grouping of four large transmission lines that run under the area. At least one of the transmission lines has been in place since the late 1800's, according to officials.
Water Department officials continue to make repairs at the scene.
A downtown Philadelphia Starbucks is at the center of controversy this weekend after a Facebook post alleging that an employee of the coffee shop refused to allow a uniformed Philadelphia Police sergeant use the restroom went viral.
The post, which does not identify the sergeant involved, says he walked into the Starbucks at 13th and Chestnut streets and asked to use the restroom, for which a key code is required. The employee, according to the post, "State[d] in a loud voice ... that the bathroom is for paying customers only." The post goes on to say that the sergeant asked politely to use the restroom anyway, and that the Starbucks employee declined to grant access.
Officer Joe Leighthardt, who knows the sergeant, was the first to share his fellow officer's post about the incident, which happened Thursday or Friday of last week. Leighthardt said he personally has been to that Starbucks location several times on calls for service, but never as a customer.
"I didn't intend for it to go viral," Leighthardt said, adding that most people who have responded to the post have been supportive.
In reply to Leighthardt's post on Starbucks' official Facebook page, Starbucks wrote in part, "We are aware of this situation, and it is certainly not in line with the experience we want any of our customers to have in our stores. We are taking all necessary steps to ensure this doesn't happen in the future."
Starbucks also responded to the same Facebook post about the alleged incident asking for contact information for the officer involved so the company could reach out directly.
"We would like to discuss the situation with the police officer and hear from them directly about this experience," the company wrote in its comment. "If you happen to know who this was -- please have him/her send us a private message through our page with their contact info."
Leighthardt told NBC10 that he believes the sergeant has contacted Starbucks. He declined to comment when reached by NBC10.
Starbucks did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
A Philadelphia Police officer wounded in the line of duty and his family will greet Pope Francis when he visits Philadelphia in less than two weeks, the Archdiocese revealed in a surprise announcement during a Northeast Philadelphia Mass on Sunday.
Officer Richard Bowes was shot on duty in North Philadelphia Sept. 23, 2008 when he responded to a shooting that left Sgt. Patrick McDonald, a young highway patrolman, dead. Bowes was able to fatally shoot the convicted felon who killed McDonald, but the bullet that lodged in his leg shattered his pelvis, badly injuring him.
In a surprise announcement during Sunday Mass at Somerton's St. Christopher's Church, on Proctor Road near Byberry, Bowes and his family learned that they were selected to greet Pope Francis upon his arrival at Atlantic Aviation in Philadelphia Saturday, Sept. 26.
Police in Darby Borough say they need witnesses to come forward and help them solve two shootings that happened within a matter of hours early Sunday morning.
In the first shooting, a fight broke out near the Wishing Well Bar, at Darby Terrace and North 6th Street, after midnight, Darby Police Chief Robert Smythe said. After the altercation, a man was leaving the bar when police say someone jumped out of another car and fired a shot at him, striking him in the leg. The shooter then jumped back into the car and fled down Darby Terrace, police said. The victim was taken to Presbyterian Hospital, where he was in stable condition.
While police were investigating that shooting, Smythe said, shots rang out again nearby, leaving another person with gunshot wounds in both legs and a vehicle with bullet holes in it. Smythe said the cars involved in both shootings have similar descriptions, but that police at this point don't have anything else linking the shootings, so they're investigating them as separate incidents.
Smythe said the victim in the second shooting was also taken to Presbyterian Hospital to be treated, and that although people who were in the area at the time and began running when the second round of gunshots rang out, no witnesses came forward. One victim, according to police, told police, "Don't worry about it," after being shot, saying that he'd handle it himself.
Smythe said the fact that no witnesses have come forward in either shooting is making it difficult for police to investigate both incidents. Police are asking that anyone with information contact them at 610-586-1100.
A 14-year-old boy is facing charges after he was arrested in connection with a Saturday afternoon shooting in North Philadelphia that left one man in critical condition and another wounded, police said Sunday.
Shots rang out about 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Raymond Rosen Philadelphia Housing Authority apartment complex on 23rd Street near Diamond, according to police. When officers arrived at the complex, they found two men with gunshot wounds on the pavement. One victim, a 25-year-old man, was wounded once in the chest and once in the shoulder. That man was in critical condition, according to police.
The second victim, a 48-year-old man, was wounded in the hand and forearm. He was in stable condition, police said.
Police blocked off the courtyard at the Raymond Rosen apartments as they investigated the broad-daylight double shooting.
A short time after the shooting, police said, officers had a description of the alleged shooter and spotted the teen -- who matched that description -- leaving a house on Edgley Street near 24th, not far from the scene of the shooting. Police stopped the teen, and he was later positively identified as the shooter, police said.
On Sunday, police said a 14-year-old boy was being charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and related offenses in connection with the double shooting. The motive of the shooting was unclear, and police did not release the boy's identity because he is a juvenile.
A teen driver was killed while three other teens were injured after a pickup truck crashed in Bucks County early Sunday morning.
The vehicle was traveling on Limekiln Pike (Pa. Route 152) in New Britain Township around 1 a.m. when the 17-year-old driver somehow lost control. The pickup truck went off the road, flipped over several times and the driver and front seat passenger were both ejected.
The teen driver died from his or her injuries. He or she has not yet been identified but lived in Doylestown, according to officials.
The three other passengers, all teenagers, were taken to the hospital. One of the surviving teens was seriously injured while the other two are expected to be released from the hospital.
Officials say they found beer cans from the truck lying around the area after the crash. They continue to investigate and say toxicology reports are pending.
This story is developing. Check back for updates.
A woman was arrested after she allegedly stabbed another woman following a street fight in Philadelphia Saturday.
Mildred Stoner, 53, is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, simple assault and other related offenses.
Police say Stoner got into a fight with a 38-year-old woman on the 2300 block of N 20th Street around 2 a.m. The fight continued inside a nearby home, police said. The 38-year-old woman then stumbled onto the outdoor steps, suffering from multiple stab wounds to the chest and face, according to investigators.
The victim was rushed to Temple University Hospital where she is currently in critical condition.
Stoner was later arrested and taken into custody.
