Two elementary school employees were honored on Wednesday after their brave acts saved the life of a fourth-grade teacher.
In June of 2015, a fourth-grade teacher at Francis Scott Key Elementary School collapsed while walking with her students. Students ran to the office saying their teacher was dead. Christie Shaw, a teacher at the school, and Maria Landi, a secretary, ran to find the teacher with no pulse. They began performing CPR and gave her chest compressions. They were eventually able to revive the teacher.
Paramedics arrived and continued treatment, and the teacher survived.
Shaw and Landi were honored at United Way Headquarters in a ceremony hosted by the Fire Fighter’s Union Local #22 and CPAT CPR trainers. A CPR training was held after the ceremony.
Police are investigating after a man was attacked and stabbed in Northeast Philadelphia's Wissinoming section late Wednesday morning.
The victim, a 27-year-old man, was in a vehicle on Torresdale Avenue near Van Kirk Street, outside a Family Dollar store, just before 11:30 a.m. when police say a person attacked him, stabbing him several times throughout his head and body.
The man was taken to Aria Health's Torresdale hospital and listed in stable condition.
Police said they have not made any arrests in the stabbing and did not provide any details on what may have motivated it.
Auggie, a happy, energetic yellow lab, made it back from Afghanistan safe and sound in October of 2013. But the danger wasn’t over for the 9-year-old dog.
Auggie was deployed with Jesse Bendokas, a corporal, who then adopted the pup when the duo returned home.
“He was the most energetic dog I’ve ever seen,” Bendokas said.
But that energy faded away a couple of weeks ago when Bendokas noticed Auggie was not acting himself. Auggie was running a fever, his legs were hurting him, and even his tongue started to “rot away” as Bendoka’s described it. Veterinarians told Bendokas that Auggie’s symptoms were consistent with spider bites, and they found two prong marks on his tongue.
In response to the raising vet bills, Bendokas created a GoFundMe Page for Auggie’s care. Within six hours, Bendokas hit his goal of $13,000.
“Instantly it just went viral and I didn’t expect that,” Bendokas said. “It was really surprising to me.”
Auggie remains in critical condition with some improvement, but Bendokas says he is relieved that it is no longer a financial issue.
The excess money from the GoFundMe Page will be donated to other veteran dogs in need.
Angel King remembers when she dropped Jeremiah McCarthy, the father of her two children, off at his brother’s home Sunday.
“It was such a good weekend,” King said.
It would be the last time she would see McCarthy alive. After getting some work done at his brother’s house, McCarthy attempted to cross Lancaster Pike (DE Rt. 41) at Ace Memorial Drive in Hockessin, Delaware around 9:30 p.m. in order to visit his father at a V.F.W. Post.
As he was crossing the highway he was suddenly struck by a vehicle traveling in the northbound lane of Rt. 41. The impact threw McCarthy over 100 feet onto the right shoulder of the road. The striking vehicle then continued northbound on Lancaster Pike. McCarthy, who police say was not walking on a designated crosswalk, was pronounced dead at the scene.
King told NBC10 she first saw the police report of the accident on Facebook. When McCarthy didn’t return her calls or texts, she knew he was gone.
“I’m just having a really hard time picturing the rest of my life without him and the rest of the kids’ lives without him,” King said.
Police say they don’t have any new leads in the investigation and there wasn’t enough debris at the scene to determine what kind of vehicle struck McCarthy. They do say however that the vehicle likely has significant front-end damage.
“I am pleading for anyone who knows anything about this accident to please come forward,” said McCarthy’s brother, Fred McCarthy. “I will forgive you.”
While an arrest won’t bring McCarthy back, King says it would allow her to focus on her 8-year-old and 5-year-old children who no longer have a dad.
“They do a good job of making me smile and holding me together,” King said. “I think the worst part is just knowing that he’s gone and that he’s not coming back.”
If you have any information on the crash, please call Corporal John Forester at 302-365-8485. You can also call the Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333 or text an anonymous tip to 274637 (CRIMES) using the keyword "DSP."
Two authors tell the NBC10 Investigators they believe they’ve solved one of Philadelphia’s oldest and most notorious cold cases.
On February 25, 1957 police discovered a young boy beaten, stuffed in a card board box and abandoned in the woods in the city’s Fox Chase neighborhood.
The boy was dubbed “the boy in the box.” Today his grave reads “America’s Unknown Child.”
The details of the cold case chilled Philadelphia. Putting a name on the boy’s grave is something that frustrated generations of police investigators.
“To put a name on the child’s grave and to solve the case, it’s the ultimate in police work,” Philadelphia Police Sergeant Bob Kuhlmeier said.
Kuhlmeier is the third generation of Philadelphia police detectives to lead the case.
In 1998, police exhumed the boy’s body and took a DNA sample from a remaining tooth.
The two authors – one from Los Angeles, and another from outside New York, say they believe they’ve traced the boy’s family to Memphis, Tennessee and need his DNA to prove it.
While researching separate books, they say they've paired two tips together: one from a woman claiming her mother bought and killed the boy; the other from a Philadelphia man who told the authors his family rented a home to a man who sold his son.
They took a DNA sample from who they believe to be the boy’s brother.
“The only way I’m going to find out if it’s the child is with the DNA evidence. Scientific evidence,” New Jersey based author Lou Romano said.
“It makes the most sense when you look at all the facts,” Los Angeles based author Jim Hoffman said.
Dr. Greg McDonald reviewed pictures of the boy, his potential brother and potential father.
McDonald is Philadelphia’s former assistant medical examiner and the current Montgomery County deputy medical examiner.
He said forensic experts will use pictures to judge if further laboratory analysis is required.
“There are some similarities to these pictures,” McDonald said. “Enough similarities that I think it’s worth further investigation through further laboratory tests.”
Dr. McDonald said the three men appear to share traits that could point to a genetic match.
Sgt. Kuhlmeier and his colleagues worked 280 homicides in 2015. He said they have to work fresh cases first leaving little time to chase leads in a 59 year old cold case. He called the author’s tip “average” and said before comparing any DNA police would need to confirm the timeline that led the authors to their conclusions.
“We’re going to investigate further is what we’re going to do,” Kuhlmeier said.
Police say there are new developments in the investigation of the unsolved murder of a Philadelphia father who was found floating in the Schuylkill River.
On Wednesday homicide detectives searched through an abandoned drug house on the 1900 block of Church Street in the Frankford section of the city in connection to the murder of 69-year-old Vito Maglio. Investigators told NBC10 police believe the people involved in Maglio’s death may have either lived or stayed at the house at one point. They also say Maglio may have been killed or tortured inside the home.
Police searched through the abandoned home Wednesday morning and collected evidence before leaving.
Maglio went missing on December 14, 2014. He was last seen leaving Macaroni’s Restaurant Lounge on Old Bustleton Avenue. Two days later his 2008 GMC Yukon was found on the 5800 block of North Beechwood Street. Investigators said the vehicle had been on fire but the flames were extinguished. They also found a pool of blood under the driver’s seat and a shell casing inside.
On March 27, 2015, officials recovered Maglio’s nude body in the Schuylkill River near the East Falls Bridge on the 3900 block of Kelly Drive. Investigators determined he had suffered several gunshot wounds to the head and his death was ruled a homicide.
The evidence detectives collected Wednesday will be sent to a crime lab for testing. At this point police say the motive behind Maglio’s murder appears to be robbery. They are asking anyone with information to come forward.
Police are searching for armed robbers who targeted a barbershop in the Juniata section of Philadelphia Wednesday afternoon.
Investigators say four masked men armed with guns entered the Razor Cuts barbershop on the 4300 block of M Street around 2:30 p.m. and robbed the customers and employees inside. The suspects then forced everyone into the bathroom and then fled the scene, according to investigators. No one was injured during the incident and no shots were fired.
Police did not release a detailed description of the robbers but say they were all Hispanic males dressed in black with their faces covered and wearing gloves.
Police also say a similar robbery occurred at a barbershop on Wyoming Avenue and Tampa Street last week and are trying to determine whether the two incidents are related.
If you have any information on either robbery please call Philadelphia Police.
