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Love Park Beating Suspects Arrested, Officer Shot in Tacony, American Revolution Museum

by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 08/19/14 11:44 am | updated: 08/19/14 11:44 am

Philadelphia police charge two teens in the viral video beating of a park ranger in Love Park. Sources have identified the 19-year-old suspect as Curtis Tanner. The second suspect, sources say, is a 17-year-old whose name is being withheld because he is a juvenile. Police arrested Tanner at his home in Pottstown Monday morning. The attack, which happened Friday, was caught on video. Police say the incident began when a Philadelphia park ranger told a group of skateboarders that they were not permitted to skate in the park. One of the teens refused to leave, and the video shows him taunting the ranger, wrestling him to the ground, spitting on him, and then stomping on his head. Two other skaters who were with the attacker are seen in the video taunting the ranger â€” and one of them videotapes the beating.

A Philadelphia police officer was shot in the cityâ€™s Tacony neighborhood early Tuesday morning. The officer was taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center in stable condition with a deep graze wound to the left side of the head. The injured officer has been identified as 15th District Officer Stephen Korpalski, a 14 year veteran of the force. He was released from the hospital just before 6am. Officer Korpalski got out of his car to confront the suspect they were patrolling for. The individual turned and fired a round at Officer Korpalski. Korpalski and his partner returned fire as the suspect took off down Torresdale Avenue. The suspect was pronounced dead at 1:35am at Frankford Torresdale Hospital.

Things are progressing nicely toward completion of the Museum of the American Revolution in Old City, Philadelphia. Grand opening is still set for late 2016 or early 2017, says president and CEO Michael Quinn. Archeology is necessary because the building will be at 3rd and Chestnut, deep in Colonial Philadelphia. A celebration of the start of construction is planned for October.

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