Double shooting outside bar

A Philadelphia Housing Authority officer and a bouncer were shot Saturday at Cognac Corner tavern after the officer tried to break up an altercation.

Dante Overby, 35, from the 1300 block of South Capitol Street, was arrested at the scene and charged in the 2:50 a.m. incident at 1415 S. 21st St., Detective Joe Chiaro of South Detective Division said.

When Overby tried to enter the bar, he refused to be searched by the 31-year-old bouncer, police said. Overby began arguing with the doorman and the 37-year-old owner.

A 36-year-old PHA officer, who was inside the establishment at the time, attempted to intervene on the owner’s behalf by identifying himself as a cop, Chiaro said. When the alleged offender turned to leave, he pulled a gun from behind his back and aimed it at the three males, who quickly shut the door on him.

Overby fired seven rounds, penetrating the door and striking the officer and the bouncer, police said. The doorman took a bullet in the back, while the city employee was hit in the left elbow, right side and groin area. Both went to Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in stable condition. The owner was not injured.

Overby was charged with three counts of attempted murder, aggravated and simple assault, firearms violations and related offenses.

Three charged in ambush

Fourth District police arrested three men shortly after they were involved in a shooting on the 1600 block of South Fifth Street. A fourth suspect who police said was the triggerman remains at large.

A search of one of the suspect’s homes turned up drugs and a bulletproof vest, Detective Joe Chiaro of South Detectives said.

The 27-year-old shooting victim, who was hit in the buttocks in the 11 a.m. Saturday ambush, went to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in stable condition.

The victim told investigators he was walking on the block when a black Cadillac with four men approached and the occupants told him to come over.

Probably thinking he was about to be robbed, the man ran only to be fired upon several times and was hit by one bullet, the detective said.

Investigators recovered four spent 380-caliber casings at the scene.

A short time later, police caught up to the Cadillac on the 400 block of Daly Street, but the shooter had fled, Chiaro said.

Police searched the auto and one of the suspect’s homes on the 2200 block of South Fifth Street. The house search turned up crack cocaine, a bulletproof vest and other items linking the suspect to the shooting, Chiaro said.

Rath Chamreoum, 23, of the address where the search was conducted; Somnag Sok, 23, from the 600 block of Ritner Street; and Kaisone Sanaphani, 22, from the 2300 block of South Seventh Street, were all charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, possession of an instrument of crime and firearms violations. Chamreoum was slapped with a narcotics offense for the crack found in his home, Chiaro said.

The fourth suspect is still on the lam.

To report information, call South Detectives at 215-686-3013/14.

Arrested for attempted murder

Detectives made an arrest in the April 6 shooting that resulted in an innocent bystander taking a bullet on the 1900 block of Federal Street.

At about 5:40 p.m. April 20, police executed a search warrant at the suspect’s home on the 1500 block of Stillman Street.

Seized from 20-year-old Khalil Slight were 109 packets of crack cocaine and three packets of heroin, Detective Joe Chiaro of South Detectives said.

For the shooting, Slight was charged with attempted murder and related offenses; narcotics violations were tacked on for the April 20 search.

The 30-year-old victim in the shooting was cycling shortly after 3 a.m. when a silver Pontiac with a "For Sale" sign in a window pulled up to the intersection of 19th and Federal streets. Another man who had just parked his dark green Bonneville near the intersection motioned for the Pontiac to pull over. One of four men in the Pontiac — later identified as Slight — got out and fired a shot at that man, but missed him and hit the biker instead, police said.

The biker was taken to HUP in good condition.

A motive for the shooting remains unknown, but authorities are not ruling out drugs.

Fugitive caught

A 21-year-old who had been a fugitive for almost a year was caught April 20 in the Norteeast after police received a tip he was hiding out in a home there.

Marco Bullock from the 2200 block of South Darien Street was charged with the 2003 murder of a restaurant take-out owner and the 2004 slaying of a 19-year-old, Homicide Fugitive Squad Detective Ed Rocks said.

Armed with a search warrant, fugitive squad detectives and SWAT teams descended upon the residence on the 800 block of Scattergood Street. When Bullock spotted the SWAT trucks coming, he ran out the back door of the home, where he came face-to-face with two SWAT officers who took him into custody, Rocks said.

Bullock was charged with the July 12, 2003, murder/robbery of Dayu Yee, the 31-year-old owner of Jade Express Chinese Take-out at 1601 Wharton St. A medic pronounced Yee dead at the scene at 4:56 a.m. from multiple gunshot wounds to the torso. Two of Bullock’s accomplices — Arnold Pearsall, 29, from the 2000 block of South 22nd Street, and Lynese Harkless, 20, from the 1300 block of South 16th Street — were arrested in 2004. Pearsall pled guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison last year. Harkless pled guilty to third-degree murder and will be sentenced May 15, Rocks said.

The second homicide for which Bullock was charged happened 11:28 p.m. May 6, 2004. Fourth District police found Andrew Rivera suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen on the 900 block of Cantrell Street. Rivera, from the 100 block of Wolf Street, died at Jefferson Hospital at 1:45 a.m. the next day.

In March, Kiyiem Hagwood, 20, from North Philly, was charged with murder after homicide detectives identified him as the shooter.

Bullock was the "set-up man," according to Rocks, and was also charged with murder. Homicide investigators cited the motive as robbery and said Rivera and Hagwood had been arguing when he pulled out a gun and shot the teen.

Police seek jewelry store robbers

Four men pulled off a jewelry store heist Monday, ordering the owner and his wife to the ground while they robbed the place.

Detectives Jim Dunlap and Eric Johnson held a press conference Monday asking the public’s help in nabbing the culprits who robbed M&L; Jewelry, 1215 S. Sixth St., shortly before 10 a.m.

Two Asian males entered the shop and asked for an appraisal on a piece of jewelry. While the owner was looking at the item, both males pulled handguns and jumped the counter, Dunlap said.

The pair forced the owner and his wife to the rear of the store, where they ordered them to lay on the ground. One of the armed men struck the owner in the head with the gun, but the man was not hurt. The pair had duct tape in their possession, which police believe they had planned to use to secure the store’s occupants while conducting the robbery, the detective said.

The thieves used the shop’s security buzzer to let in two accomplices, Dunlap said. One of those accomplices was Asian, but police think the other may have been either black or Hispanic.

The offenders used their weapons to smash display cases, a bullet from one of the firearms shattered a front window after a gun accidentally went off, the detective said.

One 380 shell was recovered at the scene.

The offenders fled with several pieces of jewelry valued at about $30,000, Dunlap said.

As of yesterday, investigators had no leads, despite store video surveillance airing on local media outlets Monday night, the detective said.

To report information, call South Detectives at 215-686-3013/14.