It’s one of those things most retail managers and business owners know never to do. And it’s the very thing that may have cost Dayu Yee his life.
The Chinese takeout owner had locked his doors to close early Sunday morning, but reopened them to let in a young woman he recognized, said Capt. Charles Bloom of the Homicide Division. Two masked men barged in behind the woman and fatally shot Yee, 31, during a robbery of Jade Express at 1601 Wharton St., the captain said.
Seventeenth District police responding to a report of someone screaming found the victim on the floor around 4:40 a.m. with multiple gunshot wounds to the torso, Bloom said.
A .40-caliber weapon was used in the slaying, the captain said.
Yee lived above the restaurant with his wife, who was in the store at the time of the robbery but did not witness the shooting, Bloom added.
The perpetrators made off with an undetermined amount of money, police said.
Investigators are trying to find the woman Lee admitted to the restaurant so they can question her, said Bloom.
To report information, call the Homicide Division at 215-686-3334/3335.
Shooting victim dies
Homicide detectives are now investigating a June 22 shooting in the Third Police District because one of the victims has died of his injuries, officials said.
Jarell Henderson, 18, of the 800 block of South Eighth Street, was pronounced dead at 4:15 p.m. last Thursday at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, said Capt. Charles Bloom of the Homicide Division.
He had been wounded in a shooting on the 1100 block of Montrose Street — the culmination of an ongoing neighborhood feud between the victims and a group known as the Good Fellas, who hang out around Fifth and Christian streets, said the captain.
Investigators don’t know the source of the feud, Bloom said.
One bullet ripped through two teens — striking Henderson in the chest and a 19-year-old in the arm, police said.
To report information, call the Homicide Division at 215-686-3334/3335.
Recovering from gunshot
An 18-year-old is recovering from gunshot wounds he suffered when a man tried to rob him Friday morning, police said.
The victim told police he was walking on the 1800 block of Point Breeze Avenue when a man approached him around 7:45 a.m. and told him to clean out his pockets and hand everything over, said Sgt. Steve Biello of South Detective Division. When the victim refused, the culprit fired a black handgun, Biello said. A bullet struck the teen’s right hip and exited his right arm, said the sergeant.
The victim was taken to St. Agnes Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition, Biello said.
To report information, call South Detectives at 215-686-3010.
Dad hit with chalkboard
A 17-year-old allegedly clobbered his father over the head with a chalkboard when the man tried to break up a fight between the teen and his brother, police said.
The 41-year-old victim suffered a 4-inch laceration and required 10 stitches at St. Agnes Medical Center, said Sgt. Steve Biello of South Detectives.
The incident occurred Monday around 8:15 a.m. inside a home on the 1700 block of McKean Street, the sergeant said.
Police did not release the name of the teen, who was arrested and charged with aggravated assault.
FBI nabs fugitive
Local authorities, along with the FBI Fugitive Task Force, have been hunting Shawn Cannon for months.
Last Thursday, law enforcement got its man.
Federal agents, U.S. marshals and Williamsport police nabbed the 30-year-old in Williamsport — the very town in which he was wanted for allegedly raping a 15-year-old on Jan. 28, said Linda Vizi, FBI spokesperson.
Cannon, from the 600 block of South Delhi Street, is accused of a South Philly mugging spree that lasted Feb. 1-20, police said. All of the victims were women, none of whom were seriously injured in the unarmed assaults. Cannon allegedly employed the same method for each attack: He would approach the victim from behind, take her handbag and flee in a black Jeep Grand Cherokee that investigators say was stolen from the Williamsport area.
Highway patrol officers recovered the vehicle on Feb. 21 on the 1200 block of Green Street. Evidence inside led detectives to identify Cannon as the suspect.
Cannon is being held on $200,000 bail in a county correctional facility, said Vizi.
Arrested in bank heists
The FBI has charged a local man with robbing three South Philly banks earlier this month.
South Detectives had originally arrested Bryan Reckeweg, 31, of the 400 block of Fitzgerald Street, for a Philadelphia county parole violation Saturday, said FBI spokesperson Linda Vizi. A detective who had responded to one of the bank robberies and was familiar with the robber’s description alerted the FBI.
Reckeweg is charged with the July 3 robbery of Commerce Bank at 2653 S. Fifth St.; the July 8 heist of another Commerce Bank at 2201 S. Broad St. and the July 11 holdup of First Union Bank at 2710 S. Third St., said Vizi.
In each incident, the offender entered the bank and handed the teller a demand note.
No picnic on South Street
It was no picnic for those arrested after the city’s Greek Picnic event Saturday.
Police made 45 arrests on South Street, according to Officer Maria Ibrahim of the Police Public Affairs Unit.
Of the arrests, 19 were for disorderly conduct, seven for obstructing the highway, six for restricted drinking, three for aggravated assault, four for simple assault, two for narcotics, two for retail thefts, one for firearms violations and one indecent assault, Ibrahim said.
Clarification
Pending further police investigation, Curtis Crump was released without being charged in the July 6 assault and robbery on a 27-year-old pregnant Asian woman on the 1700 block of South Bancroft Street.
