Police seek suspects in Olney murder
Police have identified a man gunned down as he sat on a stoop in Olney as Anthony Celious, 32, of Burholme.
Police have identified a man gunned down as he sat on a stoop in Olney as Anthony Celious, 32, of Burholme.
Someone shot Celious, of Friendship Street near Oakley, in the stomach as he sat with a 22-year-old female friend on the porch steps of a home on Nedro Avenue near Second Street about 9 p.m. Monday, police said. Celious died at Einstein Medical Center at 9:30 p.m., police said. His friend, who caught a bullet in the foot, was treated there and later released. Their two attackers ran west on Nedro to Third Street, where they jumped into a white sedan and sped away. They're described as a black man of medium height and stocky building, wearing all black, and a heavyset woman wearing white pants and shirt and braids running straight back on her head.
Police reported no suspects or motive. Tipsters, call homicide detectives at (215) 686-3334 or -3335.
The murder was one of several shootings since the weekend.
In North Philly, someone shot a 25-year-old man in the stomach on Hazzard Street near 15th at 1:15 a.m. this morning, police said. He remains in critical condition at Temple University Hospital.
And in Nicetown, someone shot a 26-year-old man in the face on Priscilla Street near Hunting Park Avenue just after 11 p.m. Monday, police said. That man told police he had parked his 2001 Chevy Impala on the block to go a nearby store when a gunman began shooting at him from about 10 yards away. The victim ran south down Priscilla Street to escape the gunfire and ran into a nearby store, where police found him. He remains in stable condition at Temple hospital, where he's scheduled for surgery to remove the bullet lodged in his jaw, police said.
Offender: #1- B/M, wearing black shorts and white t-shirt, possibly operating a gold or white vehicle.
