Chester shoot-out set off by a lingering feud Three people were wounded after exchanging gunfire with police during a car chase.

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, January, 2008 | by Lini S. Kadaba Inquirer Staff Writer

An afternoon shoot-out Thursday in Chester that left three people wounded after exchanging gunfire with police apparently was set off by anger over a month-old robbery. No one was seriously injured. "It was sheer luck all around," Capt. Joseph Massi of the Chester Police Department said yesterday.

According to police reports, Michael Samuels, 48, had confronted a neighborhood teen known as "Money Grip," whom he told authorities was one of two people who held him up at gunpoint Dec. 12 and took $400 and a digital camera. (He didn't report the crime.) "Why did you do that to me?" Samuels said he asked the teen, whose name is Michael Sterling. Samuels then went home, he told police. Later Thursday, Sterling, 16, of Chester, allegedly responded with a fusillade of bullets that...