New information showing someone may have seen the man was in trouble and tried to help. Fox 29s dave kinchen is live at coast guard headquarters in south philadelphia tonight. Dave . Iain authorities tell us that the victim jumped into the water at the mouth of schuylkill and delaware rivers. Were told that a passerby on a jet ski saw the person in trouble. Tried to floe throw out a live preserver but victim went under. Fox 29 was there as the coast guard and u. S. New Jersey State Police divers work the river between National Park new jersey and fort mifflin in philadelphia philadelphia. They were looking for the body avenue missing 43yearold swimmer Authorities Say the body was located around 8 30 the coast guard says the swimmer ventured out on to the water with 18foot boat with one another person before leaving the boat and never returning. Theyred whoing on everybody all the ships and everything. I guess theyre concentrating here on the area. Reporter many spent sunday evening wat
We havent had anyone come forward at this point. Were cross referencing the information that we have in terms of the growthing description with missing person reports weve been taking over the last few days. So were cross referencing the two of those but nothing jumped out at this point. Reporter police tell us that the driver was arrested at the scene and questioned by investigators, but released as the da Office Reviews possible charges. This story, of course, still developing. Well keep you update. Iain. Dave, thank you. A man is still alive tonight after being shot five times. It happened around noon today on the 1700 block of tasker street in point breeze. 25yearold was shot once in the chest leg, wrist and then twice in the stomach right now police are still looking for the shooter. Authorities still have not release the the name of the man who drowned in the Delaware River it happened yesterday afternoon. Coast guard says the man jumped off boat to go for a swim but never resurf
Enterederd court. It incomprehensible from a parent crossed that step. While outside the family argued he did not do it. I believe he is innocent. Florence is his grand mother. You will twist my words owe round. Who killed the little boy then. Thats what we have to find out. Last month he cut a deal with prosecutors admitting he di privd 3yearold braen den in oxygen in return for 10 years behind bars. After refusing to make a statement he got the ten. So was your client told he he did not kill his child. Me never said anything otherwise. Do you believe he did not kill his child. I dont know what happene happened. I know this is a very suspicious case. It was october of 2015 when he reported his son missing. The childs body was found three hours later in a creek in wooded area near his home. In a made trial prosecutors argued he killed the child because he got in the way of his relationship with teenage girlfriend. The jury could not reach a verdict. In august, creatto plead to aggravat
Ago this was called in around 4 15. I can tell you that a man came up to me and told me that he not only witnessed the fire but went up to the door, got kick the door open, got inside and was able to wake up a person in one of the apartments and bring them to safety. We havent had a chance to get the latest information from fire crews. Theyre still as you can see working the scene right here. Well come back live at some point but we want to tell you that this obviously this part of main street is shut down and will be for some time as crews continue to work on this blaze and deal with some hot spots. Its not clear if there were any transports we had one person again tell us that they helped wake someone up who was inside. But fire crews have not been able to say whether theyve transported anyone. We are also told by fire crews no injuries to firefighters that the officials know of at this point. That is the latest here in dar darby. Joyce, back to you. All right, dave, well check back
Theyre still going on in the court behind me. You know, Business Owners are testifying this afternoon about how their businesses have been devastated by the construction out there. Lifeguards telling stories about how they got rashes from the contamination in that pond of the basin but the government says the shut down is costing taxpayers about 125,000 a day, and theyre asking the court to let them get back to work while they try to figure out what happened here. Absolutely not. If theres a problem, you need to stop, figure it out and do something thats going to work. Reporter residents and locals not buying the governments explanation that they need to complete the dunes project, have everything in place before they know for sure how the system works there. Theyre stumped. Reporter stumped for now admitted an army corps of engineer project manager and theyre hydraulics expert saying, theyve seen this kind of prolonged ponding before working a similar project in sea isle. And it all w