Gun Crisis Report 6/4/13

Cab driver shot during reported robbery overnight in East Mount Airy Posted: 04 Jun 2013 07:54 AM PDT Philadelphia Police investigators examine the scene in East Germantown where officers found a taxi driver who had been shot during a robbery early Tuesday morning. According to Chief Inspector Scott Small, the cabbie picked up two men on Germantown Avenue and drove them to the 200 block of E. Hortter Street in East Mount Airy. Police said that two men then announced a robbery and began to root through the driver’s pockets when one of the assailants opened fire, according to an NBC10 report. According to philly.com, police said the driver was shot in the arm. 6ABC is reporting that the victim was in critical but stable condition, and is expected to survive. After the robbers fled, police spotted the wounded cabbie speeding along Chew Avenue in a Germantown Cab Company taxi. Officers caught up with the cab at the former Germantown Hospital, which now serves as a city behavioral health crisis center but no longer provides other emergency medical services. Officers rushed the wounded man to Einstein Medical Center in a patrol car. The shooter left a single fired shell casing inside the taxi, where the meter still displayed the fare, next to a bloody steering wheel. Small said police have one suspect in custody. Another taxi driver was shot to death in West Philadelphia last month. Please share your ideas to stop the shooting in our community by using the #phillypeaceplan hash tag when communicating on social media: http://guncrisis.org/phillypeaceplan/

Shooting wounds man in Hunting Park Posted: 04 Jun 2013 06:10 AM PDT Police search for evidence at the scene of a shooting early Tuesday morning on West Annsbury Street near North 6th Street in the Hunting Park section of Philadelphia. Photographs for the Gun Crisis Reporting Project by Joseph Kaczmarek. According to police, a man in his twenties was taken to Einstein Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition. Investigators said that they located twelve .40 caliber shell casing on the street. Police said the young man was shot in the buttocks just before 2:30 a.m., according to 6ABC.