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Wednesday 5 July 2023
Five dead in Philadelphia-area shooting that’s nation’s worst

violence yet around July 4

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA 13-year-old shot twice in
Associated Press the legs were in stable con-
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A dition, as were a 2-year-
40-year-old man with a rifle, old boy and a 33-year-old
a pistol, extra magazines, a woman injured by shat-
police scanner and a bul- tered glass.
letproof vest fatally shot Tim Eads said that Monday
four men in a Philadelphia night he heard fireworks,
neighborhood and chased then gunshots, and saw po-
and killed a fifth man inside lice cars “flying by.” His wife
a house, police said. was on the second floor
A 2-year-old boy and a “looking out the bay win-
13-year-old were also dow and saw the shooter
wounded in the Monday actually coming down this
night violence that made street here behind me.”
the working-class area of Eads saw the other man
Kingsessing the site of the with a pistol who, Eads said,
nation’s worst violence may have been firing at
around the July 4 holiday. the shooter.
The gunman fired at po- “He was using my car as a
lice as they chased him for shield shooting out into the
blocks, police said. When street,” Eads said.
they caught up, he sur- A resident named Roger
rendered in an alley, Po- Police on the scene of a shooting Monday, July 3, 2023 in Philadelphia. who declined to give his
lice Commissioner Dani- Associated Press last name said he and his
elle Outlaw said at a news were wounded in a shoot- may have returned fire at hood festival in Fort Worth, family were eating in the
conference. The shooter ing. More than half of the the suspect. Police did not Texas, leaving three people living room at about 8:30
had no connection to the victims were 18 or younger, know whether there was a dead and eight hurt. p.m. when they heard
victims before the shooting, officials said. connection between the Philadelphia police on eight to 10 gunshots.
she said. In Philadelphia, officers two, Outlaw said. Tuesday afternoon identi- “Everybody thought it
“Thank God our officers were flagged down at She said that officers found fied the victims there as was fireworks but ... been
were on the scene and re- about 8:30 p.m. Monday. dozens of shell casings 20-year-old Lashyd Mer- around here about three
sponded as quickly as they Multiple calls reporting strewn across eight blocks. ritt, 29—year-old Dymir years so I heard it enough,”
did. I can’t even describe shots fired also came from “You can see there are Stanton, 59-year-old Ralph he said. “I looked out the
the level of bravery and Kingsessing. Police found several scenes out here,” Moralis and 15-year-old window and seen a bunch
courage that was shown, some victims and heard Outlaw said. “We’re can- Daujan Brown, all pro- of people running.”
in addition to the restraint more shots as they were vassing the area to get as nounced dead shortly He said he heard about four
that was shown here,” Out- helping them, Outlaw said. much as we can, to identify after the Monday night more shots and “thought it
law said. Police told Fox 29 that a fifth witnesses, to identify where gunfire; and 31-year-old was the end of it.” Ten min-
At a holiday weekend victim had been chased cameras are located and Joseph Wamah, Jr., who utes later, he said, police
block party in Baltimore, into his home and shot to to do everything to figure was found in a home early came “flying down here,”
about 90 miles (145 kilo- death. Bullet casings were out the why,” Outlaw said. Tuesday, also with multiple and about five minutes
meters) to the southwest of found outside the home. About four hours after the bullet wounds. later he heard rapid gunfire
Philadelphia, two people A second person was also Philadelphia shooting, gun- A 2-year-old boy shot four open up right outside the
were killed and 28 others taken into custody and fire rang out at a neighbor- times in the legs and a house.q

Joey Chestnut shakes off rain delay and defends title at Nathan’s

Fourth of July hot dog contest

Associated Press test, defending champion title in 2005 and hasn’t lost
Eating superstar Joey Miki Sudo forced down 39 it since 2015. His best finish
“Jaws” Chestnut shook off 1/2 hot dogs and buns to was in 2021 when he tallied
a rain delay and gobbled collect her ninth Mustard 76 hot dogs, but Tuesday’s
his way to another win at Belt. But before the men weather disruption made a
Nathan’s Famous Fourth of could compete, stormy repeat impossible.
July hot dog eating con- weather moved over New Sudo beat Mayoi Ebihara’s
test, downing 62 franks York City’s Coney Island 33 1/2 hot dogs in 10 min-
and buns in 10 minutes. and delayed the competi- utes in a women’s event
Chestnut out ate runner-up tion for two hours. that appeared to be much
Geoffrey Esper and the rest “What a roller coaster, closer until the final count
of an international field of emotionally,” Chestnut said was announced. The un-
15 competitive eaters by after riding out the rain and official real-time counter
This year’s woman’s champion Miki Sudo, left, and man’s double digits to clinch his wondering whether the showed the two leaders
champion Joey Chestnut, center, stand together during the
2023 Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest in 16th title. Esper, of Oxford, famed contest would go tied throughout much of
the Coney Island section of the Brooklyn borough of New York, Massachusetts managed on at all. The 39-year-old the competition. A final
Tuesday, July. 4, 2023. to ingest 49 hot dogs and from Westfield, Indiana first count of plates settled the
Associated Press buns. In the women’s con- competed for the Nathan’s score. q