Trouble follows performer French Montana from Las Vegas to Philadelphia
as shooting leaves one man dead and another wounded
Posted: 01 Mar 2013 07:28 AM PST
Performer French Montana, standing at left, was among roughly 25 people held for questioning by police
following a double shooting and homicide outside Montana’s tour bus in Philadelphia shortly before
midnight Thursday.
Photographs by Tom Kelly IV for the Gun Crisis Reporting Project.
 A 27-year-old man was rushed by police to Hahnemann
University Hospital after the incident, but was pronounced dead a short time later. A 29-year-old man arrived
at Jefferson University Hospital in a private vehicle at about the same time.
Last week, three people were killed and five injured in a shootout and crash on the Las Vegas strip.
According to the Associated Press, police think that shootout may have started as an argument at a resort-casino
on the same night French Montana performed in the casino’s nightclub.
 In Philadelphia, police reported that fans followed Montana’s
entourage to their hotel on Columbus Boulevard after a performance Thursday night, and witnesses said
someone in a passing car opened fire, according to 6ABC.
Investigators believe that someone from the bus returned fired after the initial shots rang out, according to
NBC10, adding that three people were taken into custody for carrying guns.
Police said that a car found near Jefferson’s emergency room was riddled with bullet holes and was being
A car fire burned in the hotel’s parking lot as police investigated the incident, but it may not have been related
to the shooting.
Police found numerous shell casings near the tour bus.
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Vigil and arrests come one day after the shooting death of West Philadelphia
community leader Gregory Scott
Posted: 01 Mar 2013 05:43 AM PST
 The community came together for a vigil Thursday evening at the scene where 54-year-old Gregory Scott was shot and killed in front of his West Philadelphia home one night earlier. Photographs by Joseph Kaczmarek for the Gun Crisis Reporting Project.  According to police, Scott was shot in the head several times on the 200 block of Millick Street as he got out of his car shortly after 11 p.m.  Police have announced that 44-year-old James Scott, the victim’s cousin, from the 5500Block of Cherry Street and 25-year-old James Hiller from the 700 Block of North 66th Street have been arrested and charged with murder and related offenses, according to 6ABC.  According to philly.com, investigators believe the two cousins got into a fight outside Gregory Scott’s job nearby at Family Variety Store & Deli on 52d Street about 30 minutes before the shooting.  Scott was a mentor and long-time member with the Goldcoast Buccaneers, a local community service organization which started as a drill team 50 years ago but now teaches leadership, discipline, and culture while providing recreational and educational opportunities.  |
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Posted: 28 Feb 2013 09:50 PM PST
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Posted: 28 Feb 2013 04:13 PM PST
Mourners gather at a memorial near Sandy Hook Elementary School
Tara Murtha reports for Philadelphia Weekly on how gun sales in a few days after 20 children and six adults were killed in a mass shooting in December. Photograph by Tom Kelly IV of the GunCrisis Reporting Project. Pennsylvania are bucking a national trend: According to records published by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), 135,603 background checks for firearms purchases were conducted in Pennsylvania last month. That’s almost triple the number of previous years: 47,456 background checks were conducted in Pennsylvania in January 2012 and 49,123 in January 2011. The startling increase — which began the month before, in December, when 133,241 checks were run — represents a post-Sandy Hook sales boom nationwide that one gun seller in Tennessee called a “banic,” meaning “people were panicked President Barack Obama would ban guns.” Pennsylvania’s numbers, though, actually defy the national trend, which showed an average of a 10 percent drop between December and January — attributed to gun sellers in many states literally running out of guns because of the abrupt surge. Gun sellers in Pennsylvania, apparently, were better stocked than the American average. Read the full post at Philadelphia Weekly: PA Gun Background Checks Almost Tripled Since Sandy Hook Editor’s note: This is the third post in a collaboration between Philadelphia Weekly and the Gun Crisis Reporting Project. |
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