Philadelphia baker shoots robber
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Here you go; from the Philly Inquirer:
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The operator of a bakery in Overbrook Park defended himself when he shot an area teen, authorities said.
By Thomas J. Gibbons Jr.
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The operator of an Overbrook Park bakery is not expected to face charges in the fatal shooting of a teenager who tried to rob him shortly after he left his shop late Thursday night, authorities said.
Jan M. Moskow, 47, was walking home from Best Cake Bakery at 7594 Haverford Ave. about 11 p.m. when Raheem Stewart, 18, approached him near an alley behind Haverford Avenue, pulled a semiautomatic pistol, and announced a holdup, police said.
"Our victim, while backing up, had his hands in the air," said Capt. James Brady. "He was further menaced by that weapon. He felt threatened, felt his life was in danger, as he tells us.
"He pulled a weapon, which he was licensed to carry, and shot the perpetrator twice, killing him," said Brady, commander of the Homicide Division. One slug hit Stewart in the head. The other struck him in a shoulder.
George Agostini, 74, was watching television in his Overbrook Avenue residence when two shots rang out.
"I thought maybe it was a thunderstorm or car backfiring," Agostini said.
Then, he said, he looked out his rear window and saw a commotion and the teen collapsed on a concrete parking area below, a popular spot for neighborhood youths to congregate.
"He was gone right away. His gun was in front of his foot," Agostini said. "It wasn't too big of a gun."
The spot where the shooting occurred - a parking area off an alley that connects the 7500 blocks of Overbrook Avenue and Greenhill Road - is behind a row of stores on Haverford Avenue.
Agostini said teens often congregated in an abandoned car that had been there for several months. The car was towed away later yesterday, passing a large bloodstain that marked the shooting site.
"I hope now with this car out of here, that will end," said Agostini of the trouble the teens often caused at the spot.
Detectives said Moskow was heading for his house several blocks away when the confrontation occurred. Efforts to reach him there and at the bakery were unsuccessful.
Brady said Moskow was issued a permit to carry his firearm, a 9mm semiautomatic pistol, about five years ago.
The weapon was legally registered, Brady said.
Moskow was questioned through the morning at Police Headquarters, then released.
"A review of the case indicates self-defense, and absent additional facts or information, I shouldn't anticipate any charges being filed in this case," said Brady, addressing reporters outside Police Headquarters.
A final determination will be made by the District Attorney's Office.
Investigators also will be showing mug shots of Stewart - he had a criminal record that included arrests for burglary and arson - to victims of some previous crimes in the neighborhood.
"There are robberies in the area that we're looking at," Brady said. "Some have striking similarities, so we're going to take a look at that and see if, in fact, he was involved."
Stewart lived several blocks away from where the shooting occurred.
His home was in the 7600 block of Wyndale Avenue, a street of rowhouses that dead-ends at a section of Fairmount Park.
"He was quiet, real quiet," said Kiyon Harvey, 18, of the 1300 block of Farrington Road in the neighborhood.
Harvey said Stewart liked to hang out in a bowling alley off nearby City Avenue, where he played video games.
"When I found out what happened, I was shocked," Harvey said, adding that Stewart had attended the Lamberton School at 75th Street and Woodbine Avenue.
Other youths who said they knew Stewart stopped yesterday to stare at the spot where he died.
Someone had placed a pair of black Nike sneakers on the spot, saying the shoes had belonged to the teenager. Later, a discarded backpack was left there.
Diran Peretz, 18, of the 7300 block of Sherwood Road, said he occasionally played video games with Stewart at the bowling alley.
"He was not a friend, but an associate," Peretz said.
"I would say 'hi' to him. Give him mutual respect."
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Thomas J. Gibbons Jr.'s e-mail address is tgibbons@phillynews.com
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I guess the abandoned car was the root cause of this one, and not the gun. Damned inanimate objects!
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No charges anticipated in killing</A>
The operator of a bakery in Overbrook Park defended himself when he shot an area teen, authorities said.
By Thomas J. Gibbons Jr.
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The operator of an Overbrook Park bakery is not expected to face charges in the fatal shooting of a teenager who tried to rob him shortly after he left his shop late Thursday night, authorities said.
Jan M. Moskow, 47, was walking home from Best Cake Bakery at 7594 Haverford Ave. about 11 p.m. when Raheem Stewart, 18, approached him near an alley behind Haverford Avenue, pulled a semiautomatic pistol, and announced a holdup, police said.
"Our victim, while backing up, had his hands in the air," said Capt. James Brady. "He was further menaced by that weapon. He felt threatened, felt his life was in danger, as he tells us.
"He pulled a weapon, which he was licensed to carry, and shot the perpetrator twice, killing him," said Brady, commander of the Homicide Division. One slug hit Stewart in the head. The other struck him in a shoulder.
George Agostini, 74, was watching television in his Overbrook Avenue residence when two shots rang out.
"I thought maybe it was a thunderstorm or car backfiring," Agostini said.
Then, he said, he looked out his rear window and saw a commotion and the teen collapsed on a concrete parking area below, a popular spot for neighborhood youths to congregate.
"He was gone right away. His gun was in front of his foot," Agostini said. "It wasn't too big of a gun."
The spot where the shooting occurred - a parking area off an alley that connects the 7500 blocks of Overbrook Avenue and Greenhill Road - is behind a row of stores on Haverford Avenue.
Agostini said teens often congregated in an abandoned car that had been there for several months. The car was towed away later yesterday, passing a large bloodstain that marked the shooting site.
"I hope now with this car out of here, that will end," said Agostini of the trouble the teens often caused at the spot.
Detectives said Moskow was heading for his house several blocks away when the confrontation occurred. Efforts to reach him there and at the bakery were unsuccessful.
Brady said Moskow was issued a permit to carry his firearm, a 9mm semiautomatic pistol, about five years ago.
The weapon was legally registered, Brady said.
Moskow was questioned through the morning at Police Headquarters, then released.
"A review of the case indicates self-defense, and absent additional facts or information, I shouldn't anticipate any charges being filed in this case," said Brady, addressing reporters outside Police Headquarters.
A final determination will be made by the District Attorney's Office.
Investigators also will be showing mug shots of Stewart - he had a criminal record that included arrests for burglary and arson - to victims of some previous crimes in the neighborhood.
"There are robberies in the area that we're looking at," Brady said. "Some have striking similarities, so we're going to take a look at that and see if, in fact, he was involved."
Stewart lived several blocks away from where the shooting occurred.
His home was in the 7600 block of Wyndale Avenue, a street of rowhouses that dead-ends at a section of Fairmount Park.
"He was quiet, real quiet," said Kiyon Harvey, 18, of the 1300 block of Farrington Road in the neighborhood.
Harvey said Stewart liked to hang out in a bowling alley off nearby City Avenue, where he played video games.
"When I found out what happened, I was shocked," Harvey said, adding that Stewart had attended the Lamberton School at 75th Street and Woodbine Avenue.
Other youths who said they knew Stewart stopped yesterday to stare at the spot where he died.
Someone had placed a pair of black Nike sneakers on the spot, saying the shoes had belonged to the teenager. Later, a discarded backpack was left there.
Diran Peretz, 18, of the 7300 block of Sherwood Road, said he occasionally played video games with Stewart at the bowling alley.
"He was not a friend, but an associate," Peretz said.
"I would say 'hi' to him. Give him mutual respect."
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Thomas J. Gibbons Jr.'s e-mail address is tgibbons@phillynews.com
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I guess the abandoned car was the root cause of this one, and not the gun. Damned inanimate objects!
[This message has been edited by JimR (edited June 18, 2000).]
Mike Irwin
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I wonder if it would be considered bad form to go up and urinate on the sneakers... 
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Chances are he knows how to use it.
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Beware the man with the S&W .357 Mag.
Chances are he knows how to use it.
Dizzipator
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"He was not a friend, but an associate," Peretz said.[/quote]
Do you think he really means "acquaintance"? If he really means "associate", shouldn't the cops be checking this guy out to see if he participated in any other robberies with the recently deceased?
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"I would say 'hi' to him. Give him mutual respect."
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Did this "mutual respect" ever include telling him that doing stick-up jobs in a state with a shall-issue permit system is a damn quick method to get a one way ticket to hell?
"Mutual respect." Think about this a bit more. Respect is not given, respect is earned.
"He was not a friend, but an associate," Peretz said.[/quote]
Do you think he really means "acquaintance"? If he really means "associate", shouldn't the cops be checking this guy out to see if he participated in any other robberies with the recently deceased?
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"I would say 'hi' to him. Give him mutual respect."
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Did this "mutual respect" ever include telling him that doing stick-up jobs in a state with a shall-issue permit system is a damn quick method to get a one way ticket to hell?
"Mutual respect." Think about this a bit more. Respect is not given, respect is earned.
Slowpoke_Rodrigo
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Same event, different newspaper -
Philadelphia Daily News
Teen bandit is killed
by Kitty Caparella, and Myung Oak Kim
Daily News Staff Writers
Yesterday, a deep-red pool of blood had dried on the pavement behind an Overbrook Park apartment building. Nearby lay a pair of black sneakers, a purple knapsack and a blue pair of trunks.
It was the homemade memorial to a dead teen-ager who had tried to rob the wrong guy - a baker who pulled out his own gun and fatally shot the armed robber in the forehead.
About 11:05 p.m. Thursday, Police Sgt. Alex Strong said, Jan Moskow, 47, was taking a shortcut home when he heard footsteps rushing up behind him.
"Give me the money," said the young robber, pointing a small, silver semi-automatic pistol at the short, slender man wearing a black yarmulke. "Give me the money," he insisted, according to police.
With his hands in the air, Moskow, 47, stood in the rain in a driveway a half block from Bestcake Bakery, which he owns and had just left, on Haverford Avenue near Overbrook.
"OK," Moskow replied. Then, he reached into his vest as if to get a wallet. Instead, he pulled out a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol and fired two shots.
The robber, Raheem Stewart, 18, of Wyndale Avenue near 76th, was struck once in the forehead and was pronounced dead at the scene, Strong said.
After the shooting, Moskow ran to the nearby Famous Bar on Haverford Avenue near Overbrook to summon patrons and ask them to call police.
Moskow, of Brentwood Street near 75th, turned over his gun to police. Stewart's gun was found at the scene.
Strong said Moskow had a license to carry the gun. Stewart's weapon was being traced by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Stewart's pals told police that he obtained the gun "from his boys in Southwest Philadelphia."
Ilhan Sanater, 26, had just arrived from JFK Airport in New York when he heard the shooting in the driveway next to his home on Overbrook Avenue.
"Two guys were talking outside," said Sanater. "I thought it was kids playing or talking about something. Then I heard the gunshots."
George Agostini, 74, thought the sounds were thunder, but his wife said it was gunshots. They looked out the rear of their apartment window, where the shooting occurred, and "There were cops all over."
Neighbors said teens hung out in an abandoned grey Ford Taurus station wagon, parked near the crime scene, often smoking marijuana. The car had been towed away early yesterday.
Strong said the car, which may have been a neighborhood nuisance, played no role in the shooting.
Moskow was questioned in the homicide unit, while other detectives interviewed witnesses, including Stewart's friends who were with him. Police have statements from three witnesses.
Moskow was released early yesterday after assistant District Attorney Joseph LaBar determined it was "exceptionally clear, justifiable homicide."
"Anytime someone puts you in danger of your life, whether it's by actual force or threat of force, as in this case, you are justified in taking these measures," Strong said.
Posted in Moskow's bakery window was a story about himbuying the bakery eight months ago.
Described as the "number one Kosher bakery" by Jewish Talk Radio on WNWR-Radio (1540AM), Moskow told City Line News: "I'm very happy to bring this distinction to Overbrook Park, where there's a number of Kosher establishments."
Friends who knew Stewart, a Lamberton High School student, said he was quiet and hung out with teens younger than he at a nearby bowling alley.
"I hope these young guys get a message and turn out better than getting involved in a stupid stunt like that," said a school teacher who identified himself as Darryl B, who lives near the crime scene.
Philadelphia Daily News
Teen bandit is killed
by Kitty Caparella, and Myung Oak Kim
Daily News Staff Writers
Yesterday, a deep-red pool of blood had dried on the pavement behind an Overbrook Park apartment building. Nearby lay a pair of black sneakers, a purple knapsack and a blue pair of trunks.
It was the homemade memorial to a dead teen-ager who had tried to rob the wrong guy - a baker who pulled out his own gun and fatally shot the armed robber in the forehead.
About 11:05 p.m. Thursday, Police Sgt. Alex Strong said, Jan Moskow, 47, was taking a shortcut home when he heard footsteps rushing up behind him.
"Give me the money," said the young robber, pointing a small, silver semi-automatic pistol at the short, slender man wearing a black yarmulke. "Give me the money," he insisted, according to police.
With his hands in the air, Moskow, 47, stood in the rain in a driveway a half block from Bestcake Bakery, which he owns and had just left, on Haverford Avenue near Overbrook.
"OK," Moskow replied. Then, he reached into his vest as if to get a wallet. Instead, he pulled out a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol and fired two shots.
The robber, Raheem Stewart, 18, of Wyndale Avenue near 76th, was struck once in the forehead and was pronounced dead at the scene, Strong said.
After the shooting, Moskow ran to the nearby Famous Bar on Haverford Avenue near Overbrook to summon patrons and ask them to call police.
Moskow, of Brentwood Street near 75th, turned over his gun to police. Stewart's gun was found at the scene.
Strong said Moskow had a license to carry the gun. Stewart's weapon was being traced by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Stewart's pals told police that he obtained the gun "from his boys in Southwest Philadelphia."
Ilhan Sanater, 26, had just arrived from JFK Airport in New York when he heard the shooting in the driveway next to his home on Overbrook Avenue.
"Two guys were talking outside," said Sanater. "I thought it was kids playing or talking about something. Then I heard the gunshots."
George Agostini, 74, thought the sounds were thunder, but his wife said it was gunshots. They looked out the rear of their apartment window, where the shooting occurred, and "There were cops all over."
Neighbors said teens hung out in an abandoned grey Ford Taurus station wagon, parked near the crime scene, often smoking marijuana. The car had been towed away early yesterday.
Strong said the car, which may have been a neighborhood nuisance, played no role in the shooting.
Moskow was questioned in the homicide unit, while other detectives interviewed witnesses, including Stewart's friends who were with him. Police have statements from three witnesses.
Moskow was released early yesterday after assistant District Attorney Joseph LaBar determined it was "exceptionally clear, justifiable homicide."
"Anytime someone puts you in danger of your life, whether it's by actual force or threat of force, as in this case, you are justified in taking these measures," Strong said.
Posted in Moskow's bakery window was a story about himbuying the bakery eight months ago.
Described as the "number one Kosher bakery" by Jewish Talk Radio on WNWR-Radio (1540AM), Moskow told City Line News: "I'm very happy to bring this distinction to Overbrook Park, where there's a number of Kosher establishments."
Friends who knew Stewart, a Lamberton High School student, said he was quiet and hung out with teens younger than he at a nearby bowling alley.
"I hope these young guys get a message and turn out better than getting involved in a stupid stunt like that," said a school teacher who identified himself as Darryl B, who lives near the crime scene.
Danger Dave
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Good article!
I liked the teacher's comment at the end.
I liked the teacher's comment at the end.
bestdefense357
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Thanks for posting this article. Both were well-written, well-researched, and surprisingly, unbiased. Just the way a newspaper story should be. Robert
Slowpoke_Rodrigo
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It is still possible to commit journalism, especially in the few cities that have two or more competing dailies.