He said, mom, im shot. Reporter fouryearold mariah her on the left was unharmed. But fiveyearold mark andrews, jr. , was struck once. Chester police are calling eight drive by shooting. Intended targets not latasha and her family but apparently a group of men sitting around outside. Thats little comfort to a mom watching her young son recover in a hospital bed from a gunshot wound. It is ridiculous. Like, we shouldnt have to live like this. My kids dont want to come home. Then what . Shes been asking the Chester Housing authority to move her family to a safer neighborhood for months. After their car was shot up. Now little marks grandmother says shes had enough. Hes five years old. I could have been here planning his funeral, you know . Its got to stop. Reporter that little bullet remains lodged in that little boys shoulder. Not clear when or if it will be removed. But mark could be released from the hospital as early as tomorrow morning. Mom says he remains in good spirits. Planning a
About this case. Investigators say the suspect who was the passenger in the vehicle when he gets out, hes wearing a halloween mask, has a shotgun but concealing it they say in an umbrella as hes coming into the store. But the owner already realized something was very unusual about this and was watching as it all happened. Kenneth lee pored his heart and soul into his Family Business the pennsbury pharmacy. Police say he was watching surveillance monitors about 10 00 oclock this morning when this green van started backing in. He sees the car backing into the parking spot instead of pulling in straight which caused attention to the vehicle. He then saw a subject skiting the passenger side of the van wearing a mask. Only way i can describe halloween type mask. He also had an umbrella that he had open which looks suspicious to the owner, and he thought he believed he saw a shotgun behind that umbrella. Reporter police say the pharmacist grabbed his own 9millimeter and told the suspect he w
Morning. Yesterday we had lower humidity, highs yesterday made it in the 80s. Today not that bad on a scale of one to ten we will give it a nine because we have a slight chance for afternoon pop up showers and storms. As we look at is what happening right now we have bigger cloud down the shore. Couple showers moving toward the pocono mountains. That is our next system that will bring us rainfall chances but take a look right now, a Little Egg Harbor Atlantic City, Sea Isle City we will look at thicker clouds in association with Tropical Storm column thane brought heavy rain to the sunshine state, outer banks of the North Carolina, that is moving out to sea. Temperatures for us right now 73 degrees, humidity at 79 percent, warming pretty rapidly during the day, we have 74 in Atlantic City. Fiftynine the cool spot in the pocono mountains. As we go hour by hour most of the the day will be dry but look during the heat of the day, pop up showers, maybe a couple of thunderstorms across the
Impala or malibu from the early 2,000s. If you know anything at all, give state police call. A man delivering food in southwest philadelphia neighborhood is shot in the head. The victim did survive. Our Dave Schratwieser is live tonight outside the penn presbyterian trauma unit where that man is recovering. Dave, you spoke to his family. Reporter we did. Hes in stable condition after surgeons removed a bullet from his head. He was carjacked last night. Taken to Cobbs Creek Park, forced to his knees at gun point and when he tried to escape, he was shot in the back of the head. Tonight, his family says this was a setup. Not supposed to happen because somebody who is trying to survive. Reporter as thriveyearold pizza Delivery Driver saru recovered from gunshot wound to his hospital tuesday night at the hospital his family was just thankful hes alive. Hes very very amazing brother i never have in my life. Somebody we do everything together. Reporter his cuss season says the hardworking Del
Protect their kids. The incident left a fiveyearold boy wounded. Good evening, im iain page. Good evening, im dawn timmeney. Lucy is off. Now that boys distraught mom is speaking out about what happened as she tried to protect her own children. Lets get straight out to bruce gordon live in chester, Delaware County, tonight. That little boy is still recovering from his injuries, bruce . Reporter he sure is, yeah, Chester Police say a shooter or shooters sprayed at least 25 shots into a chester Public Housing complex late last night. One of those shots as you say found a fiveyearold boy whos mom may well have saved his life. A shattered rear window and series of shell casing markers just about all thats left to remind a horrified mother the incident that nearly took the child away. Theres one other grim soup near. My little son will still have a bullet lodged in the side of him because of this ridiculousness. Just before 11 00 monday night latasha haze what in her kitchen with four fee a