4 killed over Labor Day weekend

0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, September, 2008 | by JULIE SHAW shawj@phillynews.com 215-854-2592

Four people were killed over the Labor Day weekend, and police identified a 78-year-old man who was killed outside a Veterans of Foreign Wars post on Friday.

Enor Williams was standing on the porch of VFW Post 6700, on 33rd Street near Diamond, when a group of unknown men approached, got into an argument with him and shot him once in the face about 6:11 p.m. Friday, police said yesterday.

Williams, of 11th Street near Medary Avenue, in Fern Rock, was pronounced dead a half-hour later at Temple University Hospital, Officer Jillian Russell, a police spokeswoman, said.

James Collier, 43, a friend of Williams' through their church, Ward AME, at 43rd and Aspen streets, said yesterday that Williams was a veteran and was at the VFW Post seeking other veterans for an...