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http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/15056483.htm
3 shootings in 21 minutes leave 3 dead this morning
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Then at 2:43, a cab driver was fatally shot in the head while filling his vehicle at a Hess gas station in the 4700 block of Chestnut Street in West Philadelphia.
The cab driver, 56, died at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Police have several witnesses and believe robbery was the motive in the taxi driver slaying.
Lately there have been more rumblings and grumbling about the crime wave in Philadelphia (averaging one person shot dead each day so far this year) but this news article hit close to home -- I used to walk past that Hess station to get to band practice last year, back when it still wasn't a red splotch on the Philadelphia shootings map. Usually late at night, while carrying a guitar case and other equipment. Yikes.
Just one more reason I'm glad to be out of there.
3 shootings in 21 minutes leave 3 dead this morning
...
Then at 2:43, a cab driver was fatally shot in the head while filling his vehicle at a Hess gas station in the 4700 block of Chestnut Street in West Philadelphia.
The cab driver, 56, died at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Police have several witnesses and believe robbery was the motive in the taxi driver slaying.
Lately there have been more rumblings and grumbling about the crime wave in Philadelphia (averaging one person shot dead each day so far this year) but this news article hit close to home -- I used to walk past that Hess station to get to band practice last year, back when it still wasn't a red splotch on the Philadelphia shootings map. Usually late at night, while carrying a guitar case and other equipment. Yikes.
Just one more reason I'm glad to be out of there.