A 23-year-old Penn Spectaguard was shot to death in his home Saturday evening in an apparent domestic dispute. Linzie Scott was shot twice in the chest with a 40-caliber semi-automatic gun in his residence on the 800 block of South 51st Street at 5:10 p.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Scott usually worked the midnight to 8 a.m. shift at the 37th Street Quadrangle gate, according to Spectaguard Assistant Vice President Gesi McAllister. "His supervisor never had a problem with him," McAllister said of Scott, who was hired in February. "Everyone liked him." Philadelphia Police Department spokesman Jim Pauley said the primary suspect in the fatal shooting is 23-year-old Angela Lewis, Scott's ex-girlfriend and the mother of his child. Lewis was at the scene when the police arrived. She was arrested and taken to the PPD's Homicide Department. It was unclear as of last night who alerted emergency officials after the incident. Homicide is currently investigating Scott's death. The detective handling the case was unavailable for comment last night. McAllister said Scott was so thankful to have his job working at Penn that he often wrote grateful letters to the person who had hired him. College senior Michelle White, who works in the Quad key office, often was on duty at the same time as Scott. White described Scott as a "really, really nice guy." She remembered that he routinely fed a squirrel that lived in the Quad. "The squirrel would be sitting on his lap and he'd be feeding it pretzels," White said. And University Police Chief Maureen Rush said she was especially saddened by Scott's death because of his age. "It was a very young life to be snuffed out from violence," Rush said. According to White, Scott always worked to further his career. To increase his job prospects, he took classes at the Computer Learning Center.
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