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Cops: Man slain in N. Philly from Upper Darby Police yesterday identified the man shot and killed early Thursday in North Philly as Rahim Carter, 32, of Upper Darby.
Cops: Man slain in N. Philly from Upper Darby
Police yesterday identified the man shot and killed early Thursday in North Philly as Rahim Carter, 32, of Upper Darby.
An unidentified gunman shot Carter twice in the chest at point-blank range while he sat in a van with another man on 10th Street near Cambridge, police said.
Carter then drove the vehicle into a Dunkin' Donuts about a block away, said Officer Tanya Little, a police spokeswoman. Officers from a nearby public-housing complex found him there and took him to Hahnemann University Hospital, where he died at 4:53 a.m. The passenger in the van was not injured.
There was no information on a motive or suspect, Little said.
Carjacker pleads guilty to nabbing kid
A woman who stole an off-duty Philadelphia police officer's Cadillac with the officer's baby and teenage niece inside pleaded guilty in court yesterday.
Minnie Collins, 23, pleaded guilty to kidnapping, auto theft and related counts, and will be sentenced Aug. 22 in Common Pleas Court.
Officer Erica Forston gave Collins encouraging words and wished her well before the defendant was taken back to jail. She's being held on $300,000 bail.
Forston crossed paths with Collins on Nov. 30 when the officer stopped by to check on her out-of-town mother's house on Firth Street near Emerald in Kensington.
When she got out of the car she left it running with her 11-month-old son and 14-year-old niece inside.
But before she got to the front door she heard her niece yell and turned to see Collins behind the wheel driving off.
The girl fell from the vehicle but was not seriously injured, Forston screamed and two neighbors used their cars to chase Collins and cut her off several blocks away, where police arrested her.
Doc accused of diverting funds
A Montgomery County man has been charged with fraud after allegedly stealing funds intended for cancer research, the U.S. Attorney's Office said yesterday.
Dr. Steven W. Johnson, 49, of Elkins Park, was charged yesterday with mail fraud and theft from a program receiving federal funds, according to an indictment filed yesterday.
Johnson allegedly diverted federal funds for cancer research to conduct a for-profit business while working at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 210 years in prison and a $2.75 million fine.
Trains to keep a-rolling
Late-night revelers rejoice: SEPTA will begin running overnight subway service soon.
Trains on the Broad Street and Market-Frankford lines will run during early-morning hours on Saturdays and Sundays starting June 15, the transit authority said yesterday.
The extended service will replace the current "night-owl" bus system, which operates between midnight and 5 a.m., when the subways are normally inactive.
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