"They put me in a choke hold and started pistol-whipping me," Bishr said quietly, running his hand over his salt-and-pepper beard.
The captor whom police identified as Walker said, "'I know you own the fried-chicken place. Give me the $5,000,'" Bashir said.
"I said, 'Sir, you must be mistaken. I'm a 50-year-old man on disability with a family.' But they kept asking for a specific amount of money, and it got me worried," he said.
His captors weren't buying his story, even after Bishr gave them the $29 he was carrying. They had bigger plans.
Farley said the men drove Bishr to an abandoned property on Callowhill Street near 62nd, dragged him inside and ordered him to lie down in a bathtub and strip.
"They searched me and told me I was going to die," Bishr said. "I kept telling them that I had given them everything that I had, but they said, 'Don't think you're leaving here alive.'"
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Monday, August 06, 2007
Philadelphia, The City That Loves You Back
From today's Philadelphia Daily News: "He was abducted, beaten, shot & robbed--for $29" by David Gambacorta:
My brother is right. Philly is just "Camden with a bell."
ReplyDeleteA guy here was killed for his ten dollar sunglasses. The killers said later they looked a lot more expensive than that. Detroit, 2007.
ReplyDeleteI've lived in some dangerous places, including Colon, Panama; Detroit; New York and; my presnt home, Durham.
ReplyDeleteBut I had to hitch into Philadelphia to get robbed at knifepoint for $7. When he asked if it was all I had, I quite seriously offered to write him a check.
I really didn't want to get stabbed.
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