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The offenders nor the victims may not have been identified in a shooting on the 1900 block of South Sixth Street Sunday, but police responded to a call of shots fired at 11:17 p.m. and, by the time they arrived, those involved were gone, leaving behind only ballistics evidence, Detective Danielle Tolliver of South Detective Division said.

Nearby video surveillance showed a gray sedan with tinted windows drive passed Woods Chinese on Sixth before circling the block, turning back on to Sixth and stopping in the middle of the block as a man in a dark blue hoody and flannel shirt left the store. The passenger of the possibly Ford Taurus or Mercury Sable got out of the vehicle and fired at the man before taking off, Tolliver said.

The victim hopped into the driver’s side of a silver sedan and took off in the same direction as the shooter.

To report information, call South Detectives at 215-686-3013. 

Two charged with assault

A man who returned to his former Point Breeze residence for his belongings New Year’s Eve wound up charged with assaulting and threatening his ex-housemate.

Damon Covington, 22, of Brewerytown, knocked multiple times on the door of a residence on the 1900 block of Reed Street at 8 p.m., Detective Danielle Tolliver of South Detective Division said. The 48-year-old victim answered and Covington allegedly pistol-whipped him, causing a bloodshot and swollen left eye. Covington returned to a white Acura parked on Reed driven by Khalil Turner, 18, of Newark, Del., and allegedly placed the weapon in its trunk, Tolliver said. At that time, the victim allegedly threw a frying pan at the car, smashing its front windshield, Tolliver said.

“I should shoot you,” Covington is believed to have said.

“We going to kill you now. You broke my mom’s window,” Turner allegedly added, but both men got in the car and drove away.

Police later saw the two exit the vehicle and enter Covington’s home on the 1700 block of North Natrona Street, where they were arrested, Tolliver said. Detectives seized the vehicle and recovered two loaded firearms, a black Taurus PT 111 9mm and a black-and-brown Deutsche Werke .32 caliber, Tolliver said.

Covington, who served time in prison for a 2007 aggravated assault, and Turner were charged with criminal conspiracy, aggravated assault, terroristic threats, firearm violations and related offenses. 

No way to start the New Year

Two South Jersey men allegedly harassed another and his girlfriend from their 2004 Jeep Cherokee before striking the former with a beer bottle and kicking him New Year’s night in the Whitman section.

As festivities continued on nearby Two Street, Douglas Smythe, 31, of Voorhees, and Eric Suhoskey, 21, of Sewell, allegedly yelled at the 21-year-old and his companion as they drove west on the 100 block of Ritner Street at 10:49 p.m., Detective Danielle Tolliver of South Detective Division said.

The man told the duo to keep going, but they jumped out of their ride and Smythe allegedly bashed the man on the head with the bottle several times, knocking him to the ground, where Suhoskey allegedly kicked him, Tolliver said. Both then jumped back into the car and sped off on Ritner.