Jamal Richardson, 18, of the 1800 S. 30th St., was shot once in the chest in the 2600 block of Dickinson Street in South Philadelphia. He was still alive when found shortly before 5 p.m, but was pronounced dead less than a half-hour later at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. No arrests have been made, and police are still trying to determine a motive. Wesley Powaserys, 52, of the 2900 block of Livingston is the man found dead yesterday in a car in Kensington, the victim of an apparent robbery, police said. He had been shot in the […]

Leissner’s patrol car raced down the Navy Yard’s desolate main road and stopped at Building 79 – a brick warehouse surrounded by silence. The 17-year military veteran, who had served in Kuwait and is a firearms instructor for the Air Force Reserve, could not have known he was seconds away from stepping into the scene of the city’s biggest mass murder in more than six years. Three businessmen had been shot dead inside a second-floor conference room. An accountant fought off the pain of bullet wounds to the stomach and managed to dial 911, alerting Leissner and other cops to […]

ASSOCIATED PRESS — PHILADELPHIA A gunman fatally shot three people [NOT pictured] at a business meeting before turning the gun on himself Monday night in an office building at the old Philadelphia Navy Yard, police said. The gunman appeared to get upset at a board of directors meeting for a company that might have been an investment firm, Deputy Commissioner Richard Ross said. The gunman also died, police Capt. Benjamin Naish said. Another person was critically injured. Another two people were present but not shot, police said. The shooting took place in a conference room in a business at the […]