UPPER DARBY Pa. (CBS) – In an exclusive interview with Eyewitness News an 89-year-old woman tells the heartbreaking story of how she was scammed out of $8000 cash by a pair of alleged conmen who last November also scammed a 67-year-old woman out of $4400.

The victim who asked her identity be concealed says she is speaking out hoping to prevent other elderly residents from becoming victims.

Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood says one of the two suspects charged in the crime Gary Williams is now being held on $1 million dollars cash bail while a second suspect his cousin Norris Williams. is still being sought.

Police say the frightening ordeal for the elderly victim began inside an Upper Darby supermarket where one of the suspects approached claiming he was hungry and needed food. Police say the victim was soon taken in her car by the suspect and an accomplice who joined them and driven to her bank.

There police say the pair conned the victim into removing $8000 from her savings telling her they had thousands she could donate to her church but first she had to withdraw the cash as a sign of good faith.

The victim says she’s glad she wasn’t hurt but she’s sad because she hoped to give the money to her children and grandchildren to help them with college.

Upper Darby police are hoping the public can help in catching Norris
Williams who is still on the run.

The pair police say is suspected of similar crimes in at least two other Delaware County communities.

WILMINGTON Del. (CBS) - Police in Wilmington have one suspect in custody and are looking for a second man involved in a shooting that occurred late Thursday night.

Police arrested 46-year-old Frank Diaz and an unidentified woman at a home in the 1100 block of Pleasant Street following a shooting that happened at 2nd and Vanburen streets a little after 11 p.m.

Authorities say the 21-year-old victim who was exiting his vehicle was chased into a La-Flor Food Market in the 1100 block of W. 2nd Street by Diaz and 23-year-old Luis Ortiz who were reportedly armed with a .22 caliber pistol and a .44 caliber rifle.

Police say the suspects fired numerous shots at the victim as he fled through the store and out the back door. The victim ran down Vanburen Street as the suspects continued to open fire. A short while later police say the suspects who had a female with them opened fire on the victim’s vehicle before fleeing west on 2nd Street in another car.

The victim sustained gunshot wounds to his upper thigh area and is in stable condition police said.

Detectives executed a search warrant with the assistance of SWAT at the Pleasant Street home and after making the arrests detectives recovered the rifle believed to have been used in this incident.

Diaz is charged with Attempted Murder Conspiracy Possession of a Firearm during the Commission of a Felony and Reckless Endangering. Detectives are continuing to investigate and have not charged the female at this point.

By Steve Beck Al Novack Jericka Duncan

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A pedestrian died after being struck by a car on the Roosevelt Boulevard in Northeast Philadelphia early Friday morning.

The deadly accident happened at about 6:30 a.m. in the northbound inner lanes of the Boulevard near Welsh Road.

Authorities say the unidentified 43-year-old woman was attempting to cross the Boulevard when she was struck by a car. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say it was raining at the time of the deadly accident and that the victim reportedly ignored a red light and walked into the path of oncoming traffic.

The driver did stop at the scene and has not been charged with any crime.

Police have not released the name of the victim in Friday’s deadly accident.

This is the third fatality in the area involving a pedestrian since May.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A Ukrainian hockey coach arrested a few weeks ago on charges of sexually molesting a boy attending his camps here in the US will remain locked up until a detention hearing next week.

Police were called out to the Schoolhouse Apartments complex in the 8000 block of Easton Road in Nockamixon Township at about 5:30 on Friday morning.

When they arrived they discovered the body of 43-year-old Frederick Tarantino of Ottsville outside the apartment building. According to police the preliminary cause of death is multiple blunt force trauma to the head.

Inside the building police found 36-year-old Stephanie Hill also from Ottsville suffering from life-threatening stab wounds. Hill was transported to St. Luke’s Hospital in Fair Hill where she later died from her injuries.

As a precaution authorities alerted the Palisades School District about the investigation and they in turn placed schools on lock down.

Police later located a suspect driving on Route 412 just north of Palisades Middle School. The unidentified suspect was taken into custody without incident and is currently in police custody. Police have not yet released details on a possible motive.

An autopsy for both victims is scheduled for Saturday.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A murder victim’s widow joined police and public officials today in asking for the public’s help in finding out who killed her husband near a busy Philadelphia intersection last month.

Just a block from North Broad Street at Girard and Watts police say someone shot and killed 50-year-old Kevin Drinks on the evening of December 10th in front of the furniture store where he worked.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Free income tax assistance is available once again for low and moderate income residents of Philadelphia and Delaware counties.