Man killed in Market Street shooting

Philadelphia Police have arrested two suspects in relation to a fatal shooting that took place early Sunday morning on the 3900 block of Market St.

Tyree Musier and Jonte Slater, both 22, were arrested Sunday afternoon and charged with murder and related charges, Philadelphia Police Sgt. William Gallagher of the homicide division said.

At about 1:12 a.m. Sunday, Penn Police responded to sounds of gunfire in front of the University City Townhouses on the 3900 block of Market St.

When they arrived on the scene, they found Nathaniel Crawford, 26, with gunshot wounds to the abdomen and back. He was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was pronounced dead.

According to Gallagher, the shooting occurred after an argument between the two suspects and the victim.

Penn Police then followed a vehicle they had seen speeding away from the scene. They pulled it over several blocks away, questioning the three men in the car. No charges were filed against any of the men at that time.

Penn Police also recovered a gun thrown from the car, Division of Public Safety spokeswoman Stefanie Cella said.

"It was a great job by Penn Police," Cella said. "They got the victim, they found the suspects and they recovered the weapon."

Later on Sunday, Philadelphia Police arrested Musier and Slater, who were both in the car stopped by Penn Police. The third person, Gallagher said, will not be charged.

According to Gallagher, there are currently no other suspects and Philadelphia Police believe Musier and Slater are the two people responsible for the shooting.

Neither the victim nor the suspects are affiliated with the University, Gallagher said.

Cella said the shooting was an isolated incident in no way related to the University.

Crawford's death, along with another homicide in North Philadelphia that took place at about the same time on Sunday, brings the total number of homicides for the year to 153. At the same time last year, the total number of homicides in the city was 193.

Comments (7)

Cella actually said this incident has no connection to the University? The fact Penn police was involved and the area is frequented by Penn students must be irrelevent. I recall a student was hit by a stray bullet inside a campus building about ten years ago. It is disappointing the crime is even worse now. In the old days, people were shocked the campus police had to carry guns. I understand they fire their weapons with regularity now while on-duty.

What a swell bunch of neighbors. Anyone doing any parenting out there?

The last two posts remind us how many inbreds there are in this country. It's really fucked-up when you go to your family reunions just to pick up girls. By the way, the plural form of "you" is "you," not "yous" or "yous guys."

Alumnus, you sound smrt. actually, i hope my kids meet you one day and learn from you. because smart people like you deserve to be the scholors of the world, especially because you are gradumacated from penn. if you cant tell by your brilliance, i am being fathesis.

oh and i congradulate you on your impecable abilrity to say dank you to those terribul coppers wif gunz for catching dem bad guys.

i think that these guys are innocent until proven to be guilty because if you check the backrounds of these guys there are not many problems suitiabl;e to this situation

The 85 percent of revenue that Ashford gets from federal education programs (it gets another 5 percent from military scholarshipslike many such schools, it vigorously recruits soldiers and veterans) puts it in the middle of the pack. At the Apollo Group, the owner of the University of Phoenix, government aid pays 90 percent of tuition.

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