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AKA DON CHINO

PORT RICHMOND – April 6, 2013 — An aspiring rapper, who opposed gun violence, was gunned down while walking home in Port Richmond and his family wants answers. Read the rest of this entry »

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Dr. Melissa Ketunuti

HOGTIED AND ON FIRE

Update January 24, 2013:

An exterminator named Jason Smith was arrested and charged today in the strangling and burning death of Philadelphia pediatrician Melissa Ketunuti.

Smith, 36, had been sent to Ketunuti’s home on a service call where the two got into “some kind of argument” in Ketunuti’s basement

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Investigators in Philadelphia have collected hours of surveillance video and canvassed the neighborhood where a the body of a pediatrician was found hogtied and on fire in the basement of her home on Monday, January 21, 2013. Read the rest of this entry »

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KIDNAPPER ON THE LOOSE

1-25-13 Update:  Cobbs Creek School – It has been two days since a woman was charged in the abduction and rape of a young girl, a longtime friend of the suspect spoke exclusively to NBC10.

The woman, who did not want to be identified, told NBC10’s Monique Braxton that she has known Christina Regusters, 19, for a decade and considers her a “sister.” Regusters was arrested on Thursday for the kidnapping and sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl. The friend told NBC10 she is absolutely shocked by the charges against her.

“I just don’t see her targeting a little girl,” said the friend. “There are plenty of pretty little girls that she’s been around. Nothing happened to them.”

Investigators say Regusters worked at the daycare center the abducted girl attended after school and that she had contact with the victim prior to the abduction.

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PHILADELPHIA – January 15, 2013 – A missing 5-year-old girl from West Philadelphia was found alive Tuesday morning in Upper Darby, but the search for the person who abducted her from her Cobbs Creek school is still ongoing.

The child was taken to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia after she was found around 4:40 a.m. by a passerby. She was hiding beneath playground equipment just outside the city, near 69th Street Terminal. Read the rest of this entry »

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Zykia Sanders

HER LIFE WAS TAKEN BY A STRAY BULLET

12-5-12 Update: An Elmwood man with one murder conviction on his record was charged with another murder this week, after police arrested him for the Nov. 17 shooting death of college student Zykia Sanders.

Amin Gibbs, 33, of Dicks Avenue near 68th Street, was arrested after police interviewed him at police headquarters at 8th and Race.

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Zykia Sanders had just attended a birthday party at the West Park Apartments in Powelton (PA) Saturday when her life was ripped away by a stray bullet intended for someone else, according to police.

Now, authorities are offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of her killers. Read the rest of this entry »

Samantha Lang

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Carol Polo has been grieving since the brutal murder in 2007 of her daughter, Samantha Joann Lang, but a surprise call Wednesday from a state trooper raised her spirits.

“I was so happy it actually made me cry,” Polo said. Read the rest of this entry »

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1-25-13 Update: Prosecutors have decided to seek the death penalty against Upper Merion’s Raghunandan Yandamuri over an alleged kidnapping that left two dead in October.

District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman filed the paperwork Tuesday morning before Montgomery County Judge Steven T. O’Neill in the murders of 10-month old Saanvi Venna and her grandmother, 61-year old Satyavathi Venna.

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UpDate 10-26-12:

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (AP) — Authorities recovered the body of a 10-month-old girl not far from where her grandmother was slain and arrested a family friend who investigators said killed them in a botched ransom kidnapping.

Saanvi Venna’s body was found around 4:30 a.m. Friday in the basement of a building in the same Upper Merion Township apartment complex where she lived. Investigators had been searching for her since Monday.

UpDate 10-25-12: THE REWARD for the safe return of baby Saanvi Venna, abducted from her King of Prussia home Monday after the murder of her grandmother, has risen to $50,000, authorities announced Thursday.

 $50,000 reward for information over murder of Pennsylvania woman and missing baby

Monday Oct. 22, 2012:  10-month-old Saanvi Venna taken from apartment in Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County
Grandmother Satyavathi Venna, 67, who was babysitting found dead

Saanvi is of Indian descent with black hair with brown eyes. Read the rest of this entry »

Marine Solomon "Biggs" Plummer

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PHILADELPHIA – September 29, 2012 — It is a crime that is five years old and still unsolved. Police are hoping a big reward will help solve the murder of a former Marine in Philadelphia.

“I won’t ever stop as long as I live, I won’t ever stop,” said Lena Plummer. Read the rest of this entry »

B. J. Jordan

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It’s not right to say that B.J. Jordan has been forgotten.

Harrisburg detectives and Dauphin County (PA) prosecutors still think about the 14-year-old who was just a kid, doing kid things when his life ended in a very grown-up way.

But few who knew him in life still inquire about his death — how he was shot in a Harrisburg alley and left to die face down in the street, clutching the unopened gummi bears and soda he had just bought at a gas station convenience store. Read the rest of this entry »

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PHILADELPHIA – July 21, 2012 — A Philadelphia mother is still searching for closure, more than two years after her son’s murder.

Vonda Bowser says her son’s spirit is still alive in her 19-month-old grandson.

Her son, Linwood, never got to meet him.

On Sunday May 2, 2010, Linwood was with some friends outside his mother’s home on the 2700 block of west Jefferson Street in Philadelphia’s Brewerytown section.

At 12:45 a.m. shots rang out, and a friend yelled to Vonda that her son had been hit.

He was pronounced dead a short time later.

“This pain is very surreal. It’s so hard to get up in the morning. It’s so hard living another day knowing that you’re not going to see your son or your loved one the next day,” Vonda said.

A city surveillance camera at 28th and Jefferson was not working at the time.

Vonda says even though Linwood was with his friends at the time of the shooting, no one has been able to give police information about the shooter.

“The no snitching thing, all it does in my heart I believe it only gives leeway for them to take your loved one away,” Vonda said.

Vonda now hopes a bigger reward will urge someone to come forward.

“I’m praying that it will help and it’s sad that money talks and someone in life doesn’t,” Vonda said.

The Citizens Crime Commission is administering a $2,000 reward.

While the city of Philadelphia is offering up to $20,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

“I will be proactive until it is done, until my son’s murderer is put to justice, I will never give up on that,” Vonda said.

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Scott Stouffer calls his daughter Kortne his “hippie girl,” who loves tie-dyed T-shirts, peace signs, animals, the outdoors and reggae music. One of her tattoos reads “one love,” a reference to a Bob Marley hit. Read the rest of this entry »