Tight knit community. Good evening im lucy noland. Im iain page. Neighbors wants to solve the mystery of what killed their friend. Fox 29s dave kinchen is arrive in south philadelphia tonight. Dave everyone seemed to know the victim. Reporter absolutely, iain. This is an absolute tragedy. Here fire investigators tell us this was not a particularly big fire but it was enough to take the arrive of a Senior Citizen and a beloved member of this community. Working people that walk by here, there wasnt a person he didnt say hello to because hed always be sitting outside on the bench outside the club. Reporter south philly neighbors called joe did he rosa sr. A father figure on the 1100 block of federal street. He perished in a fire on the second floor of this house. Im surprised they didnt fine him sitting outside because i think if the weather was nice he might have been sitting on the step at 5 00 oclock. I think that made him stay in. Angelo colletti says he was one of the founding member
To have to do this. Danny is a hard charger. One of my bike officers. Engaged in the community and addressing crime issues every night. Reporter eight year veteran fired back striking the suspect twice in the arm. Police race the the officer to the hospital. Nobody lynn was found wounded in an alley nearby with a gun. The officer was very lucky. When everybody got out unscathed, no citizens got hurt. All the officers are okay, and the bad guy will go to jail. Reporter police say he has 13 prior arrests from theft and robbery to aggravated assault. He was last arrested in 2012 on drug charges and served a year in prison. So why did he open fire . I can only surmise it had to do with the fact hes got priors. Significant priors. He had a weapon. Reporter as for the officer, hell be off for at least a few days. Which is his sons birthday. Definitely be off. Knowing danny hell be want to be back next week. Well take it one day at a time. Reporter suspect remains in stable condition with sev
Here, there wasnt a person he didnt say hello to because hed always be sitting outside on the bench outside the club. Reporter south philly neighbors called joe did he rosa sr. A father figure on the 1100 block of federal street. He perished in a fire on the second floor of this house. Im surprised they didnt fine him sitting outside because i think if the weather was nice he might have been sitting on the step at 5 00 oclock. I think that made him stay in. Angelo colletti says he was one of the founding members of the Street Corner club known as la cos is a de pass is a. They even have this baby picture up on the wall. We palled around together. We would go out to lunch dinner got to pats toes steaks sit on the bench hed smoke cigarettes. Id make him coffee every morning. He drove me crazy. But now i miss him. Reporter word spread quickly about a fire on the block around 5 15 this evening. Told my son i said dante see whats going down at the club theres Fire Department and when i got
Since yesterday before being rescued this afternoon. The victims, 13 year old boy and his sisters nine, ten and 12. Now, neighbor tells thaws one of the kids had an argument with their mother before all of this happened, allegedly about some money being taken. Police say one of the kids grabbed a phone that could only dial out and call 911 so they called 911. Police then came and called on the Philadelphia Fire Department to raise a ladder to the second window, second floor window to get n witnesses say that the children were let out through the front door and ran to a police van in fear. Walked outside it is like whats going on, thats when everybody was telling me they got locked up downstairs in the basement. I could just imagine how they were feeling. Just a sad situation, you know really is sad because you know, it is kids involved. And kind of breaks my heart. Again, police tell us that the mother did this deliberately deliberately locked her kids in the basement after an argument
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