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Caught On Tape: Gunmen Open Fire On SEPTA Bus

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – It’s like something out of the movies. But, in this case the guns are real and the victims are SEPTA passengers in the wrong place at the wrong time, although remarkably no one was hit.

In court, authorities show the video of two men opening fire on a SEPTA route 47 bus at 7th and Cecil B. Moore in North Philadelphia in June. Four people are held for trial.

The prosecution alleges defendant Penny Chapman triggered the shooting. A man on the bus threatened to call DHS on her for spanking her child. After their argument, she allegedly made a phone call and the armed men were waiting for the bus. They helped get her off the bus, then Chapman allegedly pointed out the man she wanted shot. She said ‘shoot him’ and they opened fire. And it was all caught on tape by seven SEPTA cameras.

Watch The Terrifying Video Of The Shooting:

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Prosecutor Morgan Model Vedejs says, “At least five of the bullets go at the back door of the bus. There are six or seven people actually sitting at the back of the bus. There is a woman standing in the middle of the bus as you see shots coming through. She has absolutely no idea what is going on. She ends up having to dive under the seat to avoid the bullets hitting her.”

Terrified passengers scrambled for cover.

“It’s essentially innocent people taking a SEPTA bus and two people deciding to open fire with all of those individuals as possible victims of murder, victims of assault. I mean, they just had every single one of them as a possible victim,” Model Vedejs explained.

The bus driver sped away from the gunfire.

Chapman’s attorney disputes she made a call to set up the ambush. He says there is a lot of speculation.

Reported by Tony Hanson, KYW Newsradio 1060

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  • GK

    We did not come to this overnight. America has gotten exactly what it asked for. I hope you are all happy; both the left which made it happen and the right which comfortably looked the other way. Congratulations and shame on us all.

    • Ijiwaru Sensei

      Two words which seem to be foreign to many–”personal responsibility.” There is no one to blame but those who perpetrated the act.

      • Ed

        Ijiwaru, I applaud your common sense. Unfortunately, many here have none.

  • GK

    Obama voters.

    • Jerome

      Bing.

      • Al

        Trademark violation, Microsoft has been notified.

  • Curtis

    Welcome to the Democrat Plantation of Philadelphia!

    • p3orion

      I am getting sick of blacks thugs who think the law doesn’t apply to them. Could it be they’re encouraged by a President who think the Constitution doesn’t apply to him?

      • Heyward Shepherd

        How about the “Justice Dept” that ignores their actions. They don’t thing the law doesn’t apply to them they know it doesn’t!

      • Phillygurl

        Wow white folks amaze me. Some idiot in Norway kills 77 people and I have not heard one white person make any comments regarding his race, same thing with Casey Anthony. You idiots still stand by her story that the baby drowned.

    • terryatrae

      This is the result of the Southern White Gentleman’s Club being unable to control their ‘voters’. They now have plantations all the way to the Canadian Border. Too bad the people who were freed didn’t at least thank the folks that freed them. Instead they continue in the service of former owners in the Southern White Gentlemans Club. (Also known as the DNC and sometimes the KKK). Sad…

  • Cnetral PA Res

    Gee – maybe if they were all at WORK (LOL) – none of this would have happened. Charge all 3!

  • non resident of phila and happy

    this is a primary example of why people are moving out.
    “keepin it real”
    attempted murder at the drop of a hat.
    betcha they all voted for obama

    • Slick

      Voted for Obama, they probably cant even read…and philly is not the only place violencen happens too….I am sure your area is no better than the next!

  • char woods

    PROSECUTE HER TO THE FULLEST AND HER CRAZY FRIENDS. NO JUROR WILL HAVE EMPATHY FOR THIS GIRL WHO CALLED THESE GUYS BECAUSE OF A CONFRONTATION. THEY SHOULD TAKE THE CHILD AWAY.

  • wsedfyh

    Of course it was an ambush. You don’t walk around (awkwardly) with rifles stuffed in your pants unless you plan on using them for something. Of course she called for them, unless we are to believe that the guys that met her just happened to have AK-47s in their pantlegs. What a coincidence!

    • Outa Here

      Actually some of these guys do walk around with guns (even AK47s) in their pants. And you’d never know it. We are turning into Somalia.

  • Bone Lee Tadpole

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…………!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wonder if these armed citizens in the vids had their P.A. conceal carry licenses….??????

  • Brad43646

    Look at the asshat trying to pull a handcannon out of his pants. Lucky he didn’t shoot his balls off.

    • Beens

      I think “unfortunately” is a better term than “lucky”

  • Bubba666

    They should hunt down people like this and shoot them like rabid dogs. They are vermin.

    • Alpha 1

      What we all witness is the complete fall of America and I so amen!

  • Byron

    well I home we can all lean something from this, namely keep guns out of the hands of Democrats

    • sdhgzdf

      I refuse to watch videos that have ads at the beginning that are longer than the clip I am about to watch. Also, the video in the lower corner that plays automatically is irritating and obnoxious.

      • Ryan Ritenour

        Use firefox and adblock. It worked great. When that video started, I just clicked on the “Block” button above it and it was gone.

  • Disgusted

    We need prisons like overseas. If we start treating them like the criminals they are then the re-offending rate wouldn’t be so high.
    For that young girl she needs her child taken away from her. If they don’t he will be just like his uncle and his friends.

    • nuisance207

      Our prison system as it is is purely punitive and frankly I don’t want to live in a police state. If these two individuals didn’t grow up as fatherless welfare trash, this wouldn’t have happened.

      • BarrysHypocrisy

        Yeah, right. It’s all society’s fault. I guess you don’t believe in personal responsibility. Just blame it on everyone else. Typical liberal blathering.

    • Sofedupwithtoday

      I agree, we do need to start treating this ‘people?????’ like the criminals they are. It seems like our justice system works for the criminal first and the victim last.

  • KK

    What a bunch of losers. They didn’t even have the balls to go into the bus itself. Worthless POS. Why would you do something so stupid???

  • Dennis

    The good thing no one got hurt, the bad thing all involment their lifes has taking another turn 7 more blacks in prison and a baby without her MOTHER. We are at war with the system as people who are good to the world especially a Blackmen this is what I have to deal with,this is why I get them looks,this is why I’m sterotype and I’m not gonna Let this and/or I let this denie me of my dignity but cause I love myself too much to be sitting behide somebody’s MONKEYBARS,very sad, this is what they want and this is what we give them. True Gangsters oh they y’all kids cuz I don’thave any and sure nuff my kids would’nt ,Know y I don’t have one single gun and never touch a gun and if somebody was to show me a gun I’m OUT leaving I don’t care who or why.I don’t need a gun I got GOD my protection when he call me I ready at anytime without a gun

    • Sean Patriot

      You’re a fool and an idiot.

    • August

      “7 more blacks in prison and a baby without her MOTHER”

      That’s A GOOD THING!

    • August

      She left the baby’s blue stroller on the sidewalk, with DNA on it

      GET THAT BABY AWAY FROM THAT HORRIBLE MOTHER & THUGS!

  • Boys in tha hood…

    Black on black crime…never seems to get old

  • Robert S.

    Unbelievable. Like a scene from Baghdad…

  • Jim Wilmer

    Definately the milk of human kidness is missing now days. We definately know Gods’ Love is not being shown

    • Chris

      Wow!. Should we not be protesting at the court house that these so called citizens be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Who wants to march?

      • VIPER

        well we cant. Have to work. Someones got to pay for their welfare, free phones, etc, etc. Gotsta git my benefits! Animals. If we had a pack of rabid
        dogs roaming the neighborhood what would we do?

  • Senseless

    She started all this in motion if proven guilty throw her and her braindead crew under the jail.Nobody is talking about North Philly, a lot of good people live in North Philly.We are talking about these lowlife losers including Penny Chapman.How would you feel if you were on the bus?

  • Big Boss

    Seriously, put them in jail and never let them out. Linda, I hope you are joking, otherwise you should begin to think before you talk. How does an argument on the bus equate to shooting up a bus? If we are going to use the logic, then anytime someone gets arrested with a gun or stolen property should receive life sentences with no chance of parole.

  • Sarge

    Instead of sending our brave young citizens to war, i advocatewe send the multi-generational welfare moochers to war ! No boot camp for them,they learned to kill at a young age.

    • Annoyed SEPTA Rider

      Sarge, you’re the MAN!! :0) And I’d seriously like to add, THANK YOU SIR, FOR ALL YOU’VE DONE!!

    • SMH

      But if you send them into War for the United States, you wouldnt be able to trust them… If they get a better offer they would take it and still kill American’s…

      • Sarge

        So true !

  • LeoW

    We need more gun laws !

    • Bob

      Really? Cause we all know criminals don’t break laws!

    • Disgusted

      Why? Those guns are stolen anyway.

      • Don

        No. Gun laws will not help. I am certain these young men did not follow any laws in obtaining those guns. Consider this, what would have happened had they got on the bus with baseball bats, would we consider making them illegal as well? It isn’t the gun, it the nature of humans that need to be changed. There is something fundamentally wrong when things like this can happen, without any remorse or concern about human life.

    • mike

      blame harrisburg. mayor nutter tried to pass stricter gun control laws and harrisburg told him he couldn’t because it was against the city charter and that only the state (which is controlled by the conservative counties) can pass gun control laws. call or write to the state reps and state senators

      • VIPER

        more laws? OMG it amazes me idiots like you are capable of walking around. Why stop there. Why don’t we go ahead and make Hussein dictator. He can take all our money and make it illegal to own any weapon. Why it would be a utopia! Hallaleua! We’d all be saved. blame harrisburg? I blame liberal, spineless, hippies that cant read the damn constitution. If you think for ONE second that more laws will prevent these bottom feeders from doing exactly what they did you are complete and utter MORON. Only two things will solve it, they either find Jesus or go to meet him.

      • johannes Heller

        Viper, I hope you’ve meant: “either they’ll find Jesus or meet Satan”, just my thoughts…

      • leopard_colony

        I counted a half dozen firearm felonies before they even fired a shot. You don’t need more gun control, you need crime control. Even if outlawed guns would just walk across the border. Any illegal can carry anything they want across the border.

    • Not Myprez

      We’ve got enough gun laws…you better start taking advantage of them if you are a law abiding citizen, and start carrying

  • sickandtired

    Shabazz, your eyes are closed…let us know when you wake up

  • sickandtired

    We should round up these guys and the flash mob kids and send them off to iraq with only the weapon that was used by them. lets see how tough they would be then

    • disgusted

      I agree. I had family members sent to Baghdad,Iraq. I didn’t understand why the people on death row and convicted of murder couldn’t fight the war. Now my family member is traumatized by what they had to do. Since it is easy to them drop them off and leave them there.

  • William T. Shabazz

    Annoyed SEPTA Rider, You should be ashamed of yourself! You already have Sister Penny tried and convicted of a crime with no evidence to substantiate your claim. The only thing she is guilty of is trying to keep her child on the right path. SHAME TO YOU AND YOURS!

    • Annoyed SEPTA Rider

      William, sorry you feel that way. BUT, had she NOT called on her possie in the first place, none of the shooting would have happened. My comment has nothing to do with her spanking her child. I totally agree with disciplining your child. My comment has to do with the phone call she made to get the shooting in motion. And I stand by my words. She should be charged as well as the shooters.

    • Annoyed SEPTA Rider

      And may you and yours continue to be Blessed!!

    • Argyjr

      William…Annoyed SEPTA Rider is ABSOLUTELY correct! That waste of life should be charged just as severely as the shooters. If I try to hire someone to kill someone else, am I not charged with a crime? Disgusting. No wonder people stay away from North Philly. My heart goes out to any decent people stuck living there.

    • Hater

      Are you really that stupid or are you just a troll. 7 cameras, witnesses, etc. but no evidence? It’s a shame you weren’t on that bus.

    • Disgusted

      Are you serious. After he (the guy in the blue shirt) helped her out the bus she pointed at the guy. Then like a coward ran away from the bus because she knew they were going to shoot (bold enough to make the call, why not stand around to see the outcome). I don’t disagree with her beating her son. But lets grow up here no amount of words is warranted for a shot out.

    • Carol

      ????????????????????????????????

    • Slick

      William, what planet are you on? What video were you watching? She should be the first one convicted as she was the one who started the entire situation…Young and dumb is all I have to say!

  • Annoyed SEPTA Rider

    She should be charged as well as the shooters. She is totally responsible for what happened.

    • Heather

      She should be charged. THEN, there’s a trial. THEN we find out who is responsible. That’s how we do it in America, allegedly.

      • Annoyed SEPTA Rider

        Heather, you and Shabazz must be on the same page today. SHE is totally responsible for what happened BECAUSE SHE CALLED HER POSSIE, POINTED THE PERSON OUT, AND SAID, (wait for it) “SHOOT HIM.” HER action set in motion the shooting chain of events. SHE is the root of that evil. SHE caused the whole thing.

      • PHILIP

        HEATHER I’M SURE YOUR VARY NICE BUT,U REALLY DON’T KNOW WHOS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS ACT OF FOOLISHNESS,

  • sickandtired

    The woman said “shoot him” She understood what she said

  • Annoyed SEPTA Rider

    @ sickandtired; THANK YOU!!

  • Sarge,the Purple Heart reciepent

    Heather, Are you a veteran ? I am and paid with a missing leg so you can call me an idiot ! I will call you a bleeding-heart liberal, so there !

  • anon513

    You need help!!

  • kevin

    So you’re saying stay out of your hood, so you people can continue to act like criminals? No problem lady. I dont say less guns, I say more guns. Let them all shoot each other THEN we’ll move in :)

  • steve

    crime is in every neighborhood. Linda. If people with your attitude continue to ignore the problem it will never go away. btw who are the people moving into the hood whites, blacks, asian,hispanick. Americans!

  • Disgusted

    You are right. There is no excuse.

  • puffyballs3

    Yes. Plese continue.

  • Ryan Ritenour

    My parents weren’t involved in my life. They were dead. However I went to college and got a good job, got married, THEN had kids, got a house. And I went to public schools. So what’s the excuse now? Many black people don’t try to better themselves. Obama is helping their cause as much as he can. They feel he has empowered them. The jobs that the government needs to be adding is police to stop this kind of mob mentality. Look at what happened at the Wisconsin state fair yesterday where 100′s of black youths went strictly after whites and many were hurt seriously. I’m gonna go buy a handgun and get my concealed permit after reading all of this today. it is getting ridiculous. It’s time more conservatives start carrying guns instead of the “going to be a liberal” black gang set of people.

  • Melissa Slaughter-Swingler

    What does this have to do with Obama? What is the connect? The president is a educated, good family man, husband and father and these are uneducated heartless thugs? No connection! Is it because the president is half black? He’s half white too and raised by his white mother and white grandparents! Take out race and look at the individuals responsible as bad people who are nobodies peeps! Do not let you pre-judgements cloud the real issue. We are all human beings and no one of the same color is responsible right or wrong for another person who happens to be the same color! How stupid do you have to be to be so uninformed?

  • jie

    I’m just saying…how do you know the person being shot at wasn’t black?

  • Hater

    Makes that planet of the apes movie look tame.

  • WhiteyFault

    What if’n day beez runnin low on they drug? Ain’t no tellin what day beez feelin inside an all dat. Wi whitey beez sayin ‘slo down on dat welfare an food stamp’ an all dat, it take moe Ho bringing money in duh house foe drug, but some of demz be knock up. Make it hard an all dat to git moe drug.

  • Amen

    Melissa, You da bomb ! Are you single ? Sorry, just caught the hyphenated name !

  • MissKitty

    not all “human beings” act human for they act as animals and should be treated at such…

  • GL Lee

    White people don’t call their thug friends to have them come down to the bus stop and shoot up innocent people, if you want to hear some truth. The fact is that an OVERWHELMING disproportionate amount of crimes are committed by blacks. But, sorry to tell you that it isn’t because of their skin color (and you sir/madam are a race baiter), but it’s the CULTURE they grow up in thanks to 40 years of liberal policy that has ripped apart the black family.

  • BOK

    Your digging hard 2 of the 3 you mentioned were 15 and 30 years ago…

  • Bob M

    Nope wrong, they’re black, and just like Oakland, they’re weeding each other other a day at a time. oooooooooH, guess what, did I say they were ALL black? Read the paper nimrod.

  • otbro

    And what was the race of the 100 plus mob today at the Milwaukee fair that beat up innocent fair goers?

  • Reginald Davis

    The sad thing is that the biggest group of victims in the country today are black females: black on black crime. To bring crime down, Democrat-style, let’s have a “government program” to issue firearms to black females for their protection. They’ll shoot these black men who afflict them, and after most of the bad ones are gone, then crime will go down dramatically.

  • Hater

    orgon.. I think anyone who takes away people’s rights to ride a bus without getting shot at should be shot.

  • Ocsarphone

    I don’t know where you come from there Orgon but from where I come from, butting into somebody else’s business (possibly justified, possibly not) is not death sentence. The woman could have simply told the person to mind their own business and leave it at that.

  • Hater

    Yeah, that’s why. (sarcasm)

  • leopardcolony

    If you can’t handle the truth I feel sorry for you. You can not fix a problem until you admit there is a problem. Black violence is like a practicing alcoholic. Until they admit they have a problem they will never change.

  • GL Lee

    Really? Let’s play a game…. you’re a b-n-e robber at 3:00am. You have two potential targets on a street. You walk up to house #1 and see a “protected by Glock” sticker on the front door. Do you enter the house or make a play for house #2 that has one of those silly ‘coexist’ bumper stickers on their front door?

    Which house would you rob?

    The same goes for conceal and carry…. It’s a fact that states that allow c-n-c licenses have lower crime rates. There’s a common sense reason for that. If the thugs knew there was a well armed population, potentially on that bus, they may have thought twice about opening fire on it. Thugs like those aren’t brave people – they’re pu$$ies.

  • Beerman309

    You are completely wrong and he is correct. Licensed weapon carriers that know how to use a firearm would have taken those thugs out in a hearbeat before they could have squeezed off one round. Cointoss, you sir are the dumba$$

  • John Sebastion

    your the dumb a s s . Jack a s s liberal

  • GoldenDoodle

    I agree with corpral punishment as well ! This is a free country and people do have a moral reposibility to question how one strikes a 1 y/o in public. Again no law whether man’s or God’s give you a “right to hit some one else. If I saw a parent smack a butt good for them, but to strike a defencless child in the face, that certainly can be construed as abuse. And not certanly an excuse to shoot at people on a bus by any means.

  • Matt

    No, I would say that if a competent person, and legal concealed carry people are vetted deeply for this, saw guns like those being pulled for no reason, a trained shooter could have EASILY put an end to that. They were and still are a physical and violent threat to society, that could all have been ended in two very short seconds.

    I can place three 45ACP rounds in three seconds in a two inch pattern at 40 feet, that is the entire length of that bus. That problem could have been solved for ever more if a legal concealed carrier had been around, BUT, in Philly, only the criminals are allowed to have guns and that includes the cops.

  • Bob M

    Dear Leopardcolony; That is the best, short version, statement, I have ever read. I wish I had said or wrote it, but I will from now one.
    It’s a shame that Black parents (many of them), raise their children to be just like how they were raised. Welfare and free money and benefits have relocated them to complacent part of society.
    Thank you, Bob Martin

  • anon1

    I’m not too sure about your comment about raising children like they were raised. I raised both of my children just like I was raised and they turned out just fine. My son is in Temple Law School and my Daughter is already a Crime Scene Investigator who Models on the side. And yes, both of my parents were in the home and married for more then 60 years now. And even though I was married, it was primarily ME who raised the children because he spent more time out of the house than in the house. So, basically, I was raising them as a ‘single’ parent. I said that to say this: Single parent home or two parent home; it’s all a matter of diciding to do the right thing …. or not. These guys knew what they were doing and so did the female who called them. One last thing. Crime is in all nations, all nationalities, all communities, and all colors. Granted some are more driven to crime than others, it still stands that crime isn’t just in one group. It’s in ALL groups.

  • jeff shaffer

    Rob, I am about to give up. My point on slavery is that there was not a plantation system in England. Yes, there were slaves and indentured servents. my people came from indentured servents in Pennsylvania.
    On blacks in England and the US, my point is that black people from England describe the issues in their black communities and they are the same as our issues in black communities here.What is the common tthread that brings these two black communities together? I am not smart. I can not figure it out. It would be the same as a group of red neaded people from Ireland acting like red people in Pennsylvania. Why? I am not asking why my thinking or I am flawed. I am asking you what you think is the answer?

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