Police sorting out wild night in West Philly

Detectives this morning are trying to sort out a case that began with the abduction of two men in Delaware County and led to two home invasion robberies and a shootout in West Philadelphia.

Police said the crime spree started last night when two West Philadelphia men - one 18, the other 27 - went to the apartment of the older man's girlfriend in Yeadon.

In the apartment, the men were confronted by eight men who duct taped the pair and beat them with hand guns, demanding to know where they could find the "drugs and money," police said. The older man also was burned and sliced with a knife.

Some of the abductors then took the 18-year-old back to his West Philadelphia neighborhood, where they stormed into one home on the 6000 block of Cedar Avenue about 1 a.m. and then another on the 5900 block of Cedar, police said. At both locations they threatened residents, including women and children, with guns, demanding drugs and money.

The 27-year-old man, in the meantime, apparently had been stuffed into the trunk of the car that the gunmen took to West Philadelphia.

At the second house, the 18-year-old escaped through the back door, police said. The gunmen then took a 22-year-old man from that location and went to a home around the corner on the 500 block of South Redfield Street.

Lt. John Walker of Southwest Detectives said the gunmen traded gunfire with residents of the Redfield Street address before fleeing in a 2007 Pontiac Grand Prix.

Sometime later, the 27-year-old abducted man walked into Temple University Hospital suffering burns, cuts and knife wounds, police said.

He told investigators the men pulled him out of the trunk the Grand Prix and dumped him at Broad Street and Lehigh Avenue, three-quarters a mile south of the hospital.

The 18-year-old, who lost two front teeth when he was pistol whipped, was being interviewed by detectives, police said.