Cops: Bad weed,not facebook, led to slaying

COREY WHITE, a man whose ex is accused of soliciting his murder over Facebook in May, was not killed on Monday because of that alleged plot or because he had been the getaway driver in another killing, according to police.

He was shot to death, police said, because of a drug deal that had gone to pot - bad pot.

When White, 22, was killed on the streets of West Philly on Monday, hours after ex-girlfriend London Eley was held for trial for allegedly seeking a hit man on her Facebook wall to kill White, suspicions turned toward her and Timothy Bynum, the man who allegedly wrote that he'd take her up on her offer.

But with both behind bars, another theory emerged: that White's death was in retaliation for his alleged role as the getaway driver in a June slaying outside of an Upper Darby bar.

Yesterday, Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said that based on his department's investigation, White was killed because he tried to sell a large quantity of poor-quality marijuana to two men.

Philadelphia police, however, declined to speculate on why White was killed, who may have shot him or how close they were to an arrest.

On Tuesday, Alexander Solomon, 24, of Upper Darby, was arrested after a carjacking in that township and a subsequent police chase.

Yesterday, Upper Darby police charged Solomon with two additional carjackings and a car theft. One of those carjackings was of the vehicle that was used in White's slaying, a 2002 Oldsmobile Alero that was later found set on fire in Yeadon, Chitwood said.

The other carjacking occurred on Aug. 4, when a man was robbed at gunpoint behind Brownie's Pub in Upper Darby, Chitwood said. That victim was forced back into his car and driven to 63rd Street and Cobbs Creek Parkway, where Solomon and his unidentified accomplice forced the victim to walk to a wooded area, Chitwood said. The victim was able to break free and run for help.

Solomon has not yet been charged in connection with White's slaying, but he was held on $3 million bail on the Tuesday case and received an additional $2.25 million bail for the charges he was arraigned on yesterday.

"He called his mother for the money," Chitwood said. "She couldn't make the bail."