1. Arrest made - good job, Philly PD!
There has been an arrest in the double murder of a man and woman inside an upscale Northern Liberties apartment last Saturday.
Philadelphia police say 25-year-old Katoya Jones of Northern Liberties has been arrested in connection with the shooting deaths of 34-year-old Rian Thal and 40-year-old Timothy Gilmore last Saturday inside an apartment building near 2nd and Hancock Streets
http://www.kyw1060.com/Woman-Arreste...es-Sla/4726796
2. This article on the ambush is linked from the article above. Four guys, catching the couple in a crossfire - not your typical 'innocent victims of gun violence'. Luckily, no innocent taxpayers were hit.
The video shows four men walking throughout the apartment building at the Piazza, lying in wait for the victims to return home.
One of them acts as a lookout (right), while the other three hole up in a stairwell.
When Rian Thal and Timothy Gilmore emerge from the elevator to their seventh floor, homicide captain James Clark says the pair pause, and look out the window:
"At this point, they actually pinned them between the two sets of shooters. They're synchronized, so they know exactly when they're coming out the elevator. As they do, the two males come from behind them and then they're trapped, because they have a shooter at the other end of the hallway."
Both were shot multiple times.
"This was extremely organized. Here you have four guys, they're all on cell phones together. They're going up the staircases. You have a lookout. He's alerting them when the two decedents are on the way up."
http://www.kyw1060.com/pages/4700542.php
3. That's actually be a pretty tough range scenario.
Ok, all you Hard Core pistoleros - if you're walking home with your significant other, how do you shoot your way out of that one?