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Violence erupts over the weekend in Philly.  

Monday, April 14, 2008




The body count from violent crime continued to mount in the city over the weekend with a total of six murders.

_ FRIDAY

4:20 p.m. The body of Jocelyne DeSay, 64, was found wedged between a bed and a wall, wrapped in a sheet or blanket in her home on Hasbrook Avenue near Van Kirk Street in the Northeast. She had been beaten and stabbed, perhaps as long ago as a week, said Homicide Sgt. Frank Hayes.

Yesterday, police arrested Jerry Jean, a 20-year-old boarder at her home, and charged him with the murder of DeSay, who was his landlady, said police spokeswoman Officer Tania Little. Hayes said that Jean beat and stabbed DeSay multiple times in the neck after an argument. Little said DeSay's family members had reported her missing. Hayes said that Jean continued to live in the house with her body still inside.

_ SATURDAY

4:50 a.m.: Police found Robert Stone, 50, of 7th Street near Roosevelt Boulevard, Hunting Park, shot to death on Old York Road near Roosevelt Boulevard. He had been shot in the chest, head and stomach. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:09 a.m.

12:44 p.m.: Three men in a blue Lincoln Town Car are being sought in the fatal shooting of Kenneth Wiggins, 19, who was gunned down on Chew Avenue near Woodlawn Street, East Germantown, police said.

Wiggins, of Unruh Avenue near Frontenac Street, Oxford Circle, was shot once in the abdomen and taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 1:05 p.m.

Police said that the three men fled in the Town Car, but two of the three men exited the car while the third man, who was at the wheel, stayed inside.

6 p.m.: Two men, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old, were shot in the legs in an Auto Zone parking lot on 17th Street near Washington Avenue in Center City, police said. The 30-year-old was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the other to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

6:05 p.m.: Two men were shot at 34th and Filbert streets, one fatally. A 20-year-old was shot in the chest and pronounced dead at 6:41 p.m. at Temple University Hospital.

The other man, shot multiple times, was admitted there in stable condition.

9:30 p.m.: A 23-year-old man was in guarded condition at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after being found shot multiple times at 6th and Wolf streets, South Philadelphia, in a gang-related incident, police said.

_ YESTERDAY

2:45 a.m.: Four men were shot at 59th Street and Girard Avenue, one fatally. He was pronounced dead at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. The three others were admitted to the hospital.

5:13 a.m.: An unidentified man was found shot in the left side and once in the right leg lying in front of an Islamic Mosque Jefferson Street near Germantown Avenue. He was pronounced dead at the scene. *

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