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Body found in N. Philly building is 187th homicide this year

Lawrence McAdoo, 54, was shot to death yesterday morning inside an apartment building on Lehigh Avenue near 11th Street in North Philadelphia.

Homicide Sgt. Anthony McFadden said McAdoo lived alone in a third-floor apartment. Cops investigating gunshots around 2:30 a.m. found him dead on the second-floor landing. He had been shot in the chin and head, McFadden said. He was the city's 187th murder victim of the year.

NE Philly man sentenced

for Eden Hall Chapel arson

Nicholas Lawrence, 20, of Bustleton, was given a work-release sentence of five to 23 months in county prison yesterday for the July 8 arson fire that extensively damaged the historic Eden Hall Chapel, a former church in Torresdale.

Common Pleas Judge Pamela Dembe also placed Lawrence on five years' probation and ordered him to pay a $10,000 fine. Stephanie Craighead, of the Fairmount Park Commission, told the judge that the building at 4800 Grant Ave., in Fluehr Park, will probably have to be demolished.

Hearing on slashing postponed after suspect called incompetent

A preliminary hearing for Tim Pratt, 27, of Logan, accused of slashing 10-year-old Tyler Medina on the neck while the boy was playing on a pogo stick in Olney last month, was called off yesterday because a prison psychiatrist declared Pratt mentally incompetent.

The case is on hold until and if Pratt is declared competent, Assistant District Attorney Michelle Tilley said. Pratt is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, weapons and related offenses in the May 8 incident. Tyler has recovered.

Women's Way holds summit to determine issues agenda

Women's Way - a federation that funds services for women in the region - yesterday held its third annual Issues Summit to discuss key problems facing women and families.

The summit gathered leaders of area non-profits who voted on issues they thought Women's Way should support. Top vote getters included stopping violence against women, using multi-media to benefit girls and helping women achieve economic self sufficiency. *

-Staff and wire reports