Reward offered in 2008 Yeadon slaying

A $50,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to an arrest and a conviction in the 2008 slaying of a Delaware County man, the Citizens Crime Commission announced yesterday.

Veno Leigertwood, 31, was gunned down in the driveway of his Yeadon home at 6:30 a.m. Sept. 13 by two men who shot him from behind and fled.

Leigertwood, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, was headed to a Saturday class at Eastern University, where he was studying for his master's of business administration degree. His wife and 7-month-old daughter were asleep in the home in the 600 block of Church Lane at the time of the killing.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Crime Commission tip line at 215-546-8477 (TIPS). Callers' anonymity will be protected. - Mari A. Schaefer