Briefly... CITY/REGION
In Fairmount Park, dog bites horse; man shoots dog A man on a horse shot a pit bull on the edge of Fairmount Park near Strawberry Mansion last night after the dog attacked the horse. Police said a wild scene unfolded in the park on 33rd Street near Susquehanna Avenue about 6:30 p.m. when the dog began gnawing on the horse's hoofs.
In Fairmount Park, dog bites horse; man shoots dog
A man on a horse shot a pit bull on the edge of Fairmount Park near Strawberry Mansion last night after the dog attacked the horse. Police said a wild scene unfolded in the park on 33rd Street near Susquehanna Avenue about 6:30 p.m. when the dog began gnawing on the horse's hoofs.
The unidentified man, who apparently had a permit to carry a weapon, jumped off his horse and fired at the dog. Man and horse galloped off. The pit bull was expected to survive.
Torresdale man, 78,
is 164th homicide victim
The death of Torresdale resident Michael Lopuszanski was ruled a homicide yesterday, making him the city's 164th homicide victim this year.
Lopuszanski, 78, was found in his apartment on Linden Avenue near Frankford on Monday afternoon with his face, neck and back covered in stab wounds. He was discovered about 1:45 lying on his back in his second-floor apartment clad only in a white T-shirt with wounds in his upper back, on the right side of his face, and along the right side of his neck.
Upper Darby police: Man
was slain, then body burned
A man in his 20s who was found "burnt beyond recognition" on his couch Monday morning in Upper Darby had been murdered, police said. His identity hadn't been confirmed as of last night.
"It was a sadistic, savage type of death," said Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood. "He was killed and then placed on a couch and the couch was then set on fire."
Cops: Children bitten, choked
by father who 'snapped'
Upper Darby police say a township man with no criminal history "snapped" over the Memorial Day weekend and savagely beat his two children.
Glenn Davis, 46, is charged with aggravated assault and related charges, police said. He is accused of biting, choking and hitting his children with a metal chair early Saturday morning. The girl, 12, and boy, 5, were taken to Delaware County Memorial Hospital, then to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and later released.
Rescuers free dolphin
caught in crab snare
The Coast Guard and other agencies freed a bottlenose dolphin that had become entangled in a crab-pot line Saturday in Delaware Bay.
The dolphin, about 10 feet long and upwards of 600 pounds, was cut loose by Jay Pagel, senior field technician from the Brigantine Marine Mammal Stranding Center, as Coast Guard and state police crews secured the animal. It swam away unharmed.
8 charged in burglaries
of stores in Pa., N.J.
Eight people were indicted in Trenton yesterday on charges they burglarized 97 businesses over a two-year period in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
They netted about $150,000. *
- Staff and wire report
