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Neighbors: Suspect in poop shooting an emotional land mine
The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | February 16, 2012 | Dana DiFilippo

Posted on 02/18/2012 6:08:17 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

TYRIRK HARRIS and his girlfriend were well-known on their bustling Tacony block as lousy neighbors.

They hogged parking spaces. They took their time in silencing their frequently tripped car alarms. They let their two dogs run outside unleashed, biting and barking at passers-by and leaving piles of poo polka-dotting neighbors' yards.

The couple's hot temper was even more notorious.

Harris, 27, ended an argument over a snowy parking space last winter by placing his hand on his holstered gun, neighbors said. His girlfriend once posted a sign on her car, parked curbside, warning passers-by that she would shoot anyone who messed with it, neighbors said.

But Franklin Manuel Santana was new to the block. He, his wife and their newborn daughter moved from Miami to their first-floor apartment on Torresdale Avenue near Magee just a month ago.

So when Santana knocked on Harris' door late Tuesday afternoon to talk about the poo problem, he went unarmed - and unsuspecting.

Frances Fogarty, walking to the ShopRite to get T-bone steaks for Valentine's Day dinner, witnessed what happened next.

"Frank was calm, polite," Fogarty, 45, said yesterday. "He said: 'I'm just asking you, please keep your dog off my lawn. If I have to come back here, there's gonna be a problem.'

"Tyrirk said, 'Oh, is that a threat?' And then Tyrirk just pulled out the gun and shot him in the face. Then he stood over him and let out all the rest of the rounds, maybe nine or 10 more."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: banglist; dogdoo; dogs; shooting; tyrirkharris
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1 posted on 02/18/2012 6:08:23 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Shooter is bla... Oh, I mean A freakin’ American.


2 posted on 02/18/2012 6:14:17 AM PST by Doctor 2Brains (If the government were Paris Hilton, it could not score a free drink in a bar full of lonely sailors)
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To: Doctor 2Brains

Unbelievable, that someone could actually think that someone coming to your door to talk about your dog is a reason to gun them down.


3 posted on 02/18/2012 6:16:58 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"Frank was calm, polite," Fogarty, 45, said yesterday. "He said: 'I'm just asking you, please keep your dog off my lawn. If I have to come back here, there's gonna be a problem.' "Tyrirk said, 'Oh, is that a threat?' And then Tyrirk just pulled out the gun and shot him in the face. Then he stood over him and let out all the rest of the rounds, maybe nine or 10 more."

How the hell this guy has stayed out of prison up until now, befuddles me.

4 posted on 02/18/2012 6:18:31 AM PST by Lazamataz (If you only think about a diet, only your brain loses weight.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Guess who..

5 posted on 02/18/2012 6:21:33 AM PST by expat1000
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

One of Holders people.. so, well never mind.


6 posted on 02/18/2012 6:22:25 AM PST by mongo141 (Revolution ver 2.0, just a matter of when not a matter of if!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Do not confront shizzy neighbors! My dad went over to confront a guy about his loud music which could be heard all up and down the street. Luckily, the jerk didn't answer his door. About an hour later, a large number of police showed up because he made a violent threat in a telephone call. If there is a problem, call the cops. They might not be able to do anything but it is better then getting shot for daring to annoy a psycho.
7 posted on 02/18/2012 6:24:11 AM PST by nerdwithagun (I'd rather go gun to gun then knife to knife.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"TYRIRK"?

That's one I've never heard before. What was his momma smoking?

8 posted on 02/18/2012 6:26:14 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Death penalty for him, court-ordered sterilization for her.

Gets them both out of the gene pool.


9 posted on 02/18/2012 6:28:53 AM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: Doctor 2Brains

This is truly ‘when the Shiite hits the fan’


10 posted on 02/18/2012 6:30:25 AM PST by STD (It Doesn't Take a Real Political Panjandrum to Cut Taxes & Cut Spending Stupid!)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Thai stick. And the “rirk” comes from upchucking her Morgan David 20/20.


11 posted on 02/18/2012 6:32:34 AM PST by 2111USMC (Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

No doubt Tyrirk was well known to the police, who were no doubt called many times by local neighbors, and no doubt said local police and/or local judicial system did jackshite about this sociopath, hence fostering his believe in his own invulnerability, hence fostering his increasingly aggressive anti-social behavior to the point of wanton slaughter of innocent neighbors.


12 posted on 02/18/2012 6:35:32 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
"TYRIRK"?
That's one I've never heard before. What was his momma smoking?


Most likely KRAK (in the delivery room)
13 posted on 02/18/2012 6:43:15 AM PST by mkjessup (Let's do to Mitt what his Irish Setter did to him while tied to the roof rack of his station wagon!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Fred Nerks; Beckwith; TigersEye; mojitojoe; LucyT

Now can you guess just where Obama will get his brown shirt armed masses to institute his liberal fascist Utopia?

They are legion. And they are armed.

And they will begin their run in June of this year.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


14 posted on 02/18/2012 6:50:04 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

I’m a teacher, poverty district, I’ve got better ones.


15 posted on 02/18/2012 6:55:40 AM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks


the killer


the killer's girlfriend


the victim

http://articles.philly.com/2012-02-16/news/31067467_1_santana-stray-bullets-lousy-neighbors#

16 posted on 02/18/2012 6:56:46 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Candor7

Watching the Dems spend years cheering the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq convinced me this country is split with irreconcilable differences. And the more I think about it, regardless of who wins in Nov., violence is coming.


17 posted on 02/18/2012 7:00:07 AM PST by kreitzer
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To: kreitzer

Agreed. And it will come to urban areas first.


18 posted on 02/18/2012 7:04:03 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
"TYRIRK"?

********

He's 19th cousin....
.... 3 times removed...

To the infamous life-incarcerated drop-out drive-by rap-stars:

Lascivious...
... and Oblivious...

Hope this helps...

19 posted on 02/18/2012 7:08:09 AM PST by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: Bulwyf

how does it go

‘be fast be friendly be prepared to kill everyone you meet’

close enough


20 posted on 02/18/2012 7:14:16 AM PST by AnTiw1
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