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Filipino Government Attorney Shot Dead In Philadelphia Uber With Mom Filipino Government Attorney Shot Dead In Philadelphia Uber With Mom
Filipino Government Attorney Shot Dead In Philadelphia Uber With Mom A 36-year-old government attorney from the Philippines was shot in the head and killed during a trip to Philadelphia this weekend, the country's consulate general confirmed. John Albert Laylo was in the back of an Uber with his mom when nearly 15 shots were fired into the rear window and driver's side of the car at 38th and Spruce Streets around 4:10 a.m. Saturday, June 18, police said. Laylo was rushed to Penn Presbyterian Hospital in critical condition, and died Sunday morning after being on life support, police said. The incident was random and possibly a road-rage inciden…

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by Cecilia Levine
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ROAD RAGE: Driver Tracked Down By Paramus PD, Charged With Pointing Fake Gun ROAD RAGE: Driver Tracked Down By Paramus PD, Charged With Pointing Fake Gun
Road Rage: Driver Tracked Down By Paramus PD, Charged With Pointing Fake Gun A motorist from Garfield was arrested after police in Paramus said he pointed a genuine-looking pellet gun at another driver during a road-rage incident. Paramus Detective Daniel Cullen tracked down Dennis Music, 51, at his job in town on Monday and took him into custody, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Cullen also recovered an air soft gun that "resembled an actual handgun," the chief said. The victim had told police earlier that the driver of a Jeep Wrangler had "pointed a handgun with a red laser sight at him" on Farview Avenue near Shubert Lane around 5:30 a.m., Ehrenberg said. M…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Driver Claims Tractor-Trailer Driver Caused Road-Rage Crash That Closed Route 17 Driver Claims Tractor-Trailer Driver Caused Road-Rage Crash That Closed Route 17
Driver Claims Tractor-Trailer Driver Caused Road-Rage Crash That Closed Route 17 The driver of an SUV that slammed into a utility pole, downing wires across Route 17 in Ramsey before dawn Monday, claimed that he was cut off by a tractor-trailer driver who kept going, authorities said. The 20-year-old Staten Island motorist, who received a summons for driving on the revoked list, told police that he was headed south on the highway when he got into a road-rage incident with the rig's driver shortly after 1:30 a.m., Ramsey Police Chief Bryan Gurney said. His 2018 Ford Escape then ran off the road and split the pole outside BMW of Ramsey just south of Airmount Avenue. The …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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CAUGHT! Driver Wanted In Road-Rage Death Of Off-Duty NYC Firefighter Nabbed In NJ CAUGHT! Driver Wanted In Road-Rage Death Of Off-Duty NYC Firefighter Nabbed In NJ
Caught! Driver Wanted In Road-Rage Death Of Off-Duty NYC Firefighter Nabbed In NJ Police captured a Brooklyn parolee wanted for questioning in the slaying of an off-duty city firefighter in a road-rage incident. U.S. Marshals and the NYPD took purported gang member Joseph Desmond and his girlfriend into custody after tracking them down at the Circle Motor Lodge in South Amboy -- where Routes 35 and 9 converge near the Garden State Parkway and the Raritan River. Desmond had been driving a 2006 silver Infiniti with the New York State license plate JEA-2402 when the confrontation with 33-year-old Faizel Coto occurred around 4:45 a.m. Sunday on the Belt Parkway near Bay…

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by Jerry DeMarco