Ranny Thon was a peacemaker who was trying to calm an angry man when he was shot and killed early Saturday in South Philadelphia, relatives said yesterday.

The man killed Thon, 24, and wounded three relatives: a 22-year-old man who was shot in the shoulder; a 24-year-old man who was shot in the thigh and back; and a 17-year-old female cousin, who was grazed in the stomach, police said.

Yesterday, the 17-year-old cousin was sitting on the front steps of a house on 8th Street, near Moyamensing Avenue, with relatives and friends. The young woman, who asked that her name not be used, translated for Thon's mother, who came to this country from Cambodia and spoke Khmer, when she appeared briefly at the front door.

"She said to let everyone know, 'I miss him and I love him very much and I feel like I am going crazy because my son died,' " the young woman said.

Thon and his relatives were shot as they stood outside Thon's aunt's house. The girl said she believed the shooter was also Cambodian. She said Thon and his siblings were born in the United States.

No arrests had been made as of last night.

The relatives kept candles burning at a sidewalk memorial that included incense, a bowl of noodles, a cup of beer and a white plastic chair filled with stuffed animals and a picture of Thon.

The 17-year-old cousin said Thon had tried to intervene when a man came by about 2:30 a.m. and began arguing with a couple who were out on the sidewalk with her male relatives.

The man left the block for about 10 minutes and when he returned, "he got mad because the guy he was arguing with had gone," the 17-year-old said.

As Thon tried to calm the man down, the gunman started shooting. Her three male relatives were shot outside and the teenager as she stood just inside the front door. "I just screamed and started crying," the girl said. "I didn't know I was hit until I got inside."

Police have arrested a Wissinoming man in Wednesday's shooting death of a barmaid outside the Wissinoming tavern where she worked.

Michael Elliott, 25, of Hegerman Street near Benner, was charged with murder, recklessly endangering another person and weapons offenses for the 2 a.m. shooting that killed Rachel Marcelis, 22, outside Fat Pete's pub, at Torresdale and Devereaux avenues.

Elliott allegedly was showing off his unlicensed gun and pulled the trigger, blasting Marcelis in the chest.

He fled the scene, and she died shortly after at Aria Hospital-Torresdale. He turned himself in to police late Wednesday.

Marcelis, a student at Community College of Philadelphia, was scheduled to graduate with honors in May, sources said.

She dreamed of opening her own pre-school, friends and relatives said.

She wasn't working the night she died and had just stopped by the pub to visit friends.

A fundraiser and a gun-violence prevention event will be held from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. tomorrow at Fat Pete's.

Half of the proceeds will go to help the Marcelis family to pay for her funeral and burial expenses.

A candlelight vigil will be held outside the bar at 8 p.m. tomorrow.

Services will be private. Donations in her name may be made to the Rachel Marcelis Fund at any PNC Bank branch.

A 29-year-old man was shot and killed early yesterday in North Philadelphia, police said. Cops responded to a call and arrived at Kip Street near Indiana Avenue about 12:15 a.m. and found Luis Aponte with a gunshot wound to the back of the head, investigators said. Aponte was pronounced dead on the scene. Police were still searching for a motive.

4 wounded in shootings

Four men were wounded in shootings in the city last night, police said. In the first, a 41-year-old man was shot once in the right thigh during a robbery of a food warehouse on Huntingdon Street near Emerald in North Philadelphia about 7 p.m, police said. He was listed in stable condition at Temple University Hospital. The warehouse was robbed of about $10,000, police said. In the second incident about 8 p.m., an 18-year-old man was shot once in the lower back at 29th and Huntingdon streets, North Philadelphia. He was taken to Temple in stable condition. About 8:30, a 20-year-old man was shot in the buttocks at 46th and Brown streets in West Philadelphia. He was treated at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and released. About 8:45, an 18-year-old man was shot once in the right leg at Front and Clearfield streets in Kensington, police said. He was in stable condition at Temple, police said. Tipsters can call 215-686-TIPS.

At least five people were injured in city shootings over the weekend, including a 13-year-old girl who was hit in a leg and a tenant who was shot by his landlord.

Police also identified a man who was killed Friday night, the latest homicide in the city as of yesterday evening.

Shortly after 6 p.m. Saturday, a 13-year-old girl was outside her home on Conlyn Street near 20th, in East Germantown, when she heard gunshots and tried to run into her house, but was hit once in the left leg, Officer Tanya Little, a police spokeswoman, said.

The girl's mother took her to Germantown Hospital, and she was later transferred to St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Northwest Detectives said.

Little said a witness observed two black men wearing hoodies firing guns from a black vehicle, possibly a Chevy Impala, with tinted windows. It appeared as if the driver and his passenger were firing at another vehicle, but it was not clear who, if anyone, was in the other vehicle, Little said.

Police yesterday were still searching for the gunmen.

Meanwhile, about 11:38 a.m. Saturday, a 47-year-old man was allegedly shot multiple times by his landlord in the victim's apartment on Snyder Avenue near 22nd Street, in South Philadelphia.

The victim, who was shot in the head, chest, right arm and shoulder, was last reported in critical condition at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

The landlord, Harold Blackson, 50, of Lambert Street near Mifflin, was arrested Saturday. He was charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and weapons offenses. The motive was listed as an argument.

Also Saturday, about 3:40 p.m., a 19-year-old man was found shot multiple times on Chew Avenue near Sharpnack Street, in East Mount Airy. He was taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center in critical condition.

Little said that two men, with whom the victim had an earlier argument, confronted him on the street. One attacker fired a gun.

She said witnesses were able to identify the shooter and that police are searching for him but would not release his name until he is arrested. She said police did not know the man's accomplice.

Shortly after 2 a.m. yesterday, two women were each shot in their rear left thighs by a gunman on Orleans Street near Frankford Avenue, in Kensington.

Sgt. Tom Walsh, of East Detectives, said the shooter was reported to be a black man, about 25 years old. The man, about 5 feet 10 and 190 pounds, was believed to have been in an argument in the Bob A Lou bar, on Frankford Avenue near Orleans, before the shooting.

It was not clear if the victims, ages 19 and 25, knew the gunman or if they were involved in the argument in the bar. They were taken to Temple University Hospital.

Police yesterday also identified a 19-year-old man shot dead in Crescentville Friday. Homicide Sgt. Tim Cooney said that Sebree Johnson was shot at 8:12 p.m. and pronounced dead an hour later at Albert Einstein Medical Center.

Johnson was shot multiple times on Rising Sun Avenue near Cheltenham. No arrest has yet been made.

Johnson was the city's 77th homicide victim this year.

Police are investigating three shootings that took place across the city last night. In West Oak Lane, a man was shot in the shoulder and back on Limekiln Pike near 66th Avenue about 8:30, police said. He is in stable condition at Albert Einstein Medical Center. Shortly after 9, police said a 43-year-old man was shot in the left leg on Braddock Street near Schiller in Frankford. He was taken to Temple University Hospital where he's listed in stable condition.

Shortly before 10, a man was shot in the leg on Girard Avenue near Watts Street. The unidentified shooter was seen running down 11th Street from Girard Avenue, police said.

Police car rammed, 2 cops hurt

Two police officers were hurt about 6:30 a.m. yesterday when their patrol car was broadsided at Hellerman Street and Brous Avenue, in Mayfair, by another vehicle, which then rammed an unoccupied parked car.

The officers, both from the 15th District, were taken to Aria Health's Torresdale Campus, said Sgt. Lawrence Ritchie of the Accident Investigation District. One of the officers, 38, the driver, suffered head injuries and was to be kept overnight for observation, Ritchie said. He said that the other officer was released. The 27-year-old man driving the other vehicle was also taken to Aria-Torresdale, treated and released, Ritchie said.

Death in canal investigated

Police yesterday were investigating the cause of death of a 62-year-old man whose body was found in the Manayunk Canal near Green Lane about 9 a.m. Saturday. Northwest Detectives said yesterday that it does not appear that foul play was involved. It appears that the man drowned, but the cause of death was pending an examination by the Medical Examiner's Office.

Police are withholding the man's name until his family is notified of his death.

Man found dead in fiery house

A 60-year-old man was found dead Saturday in a residence in Somerton after a fire broke out in a three-story twin home on Lawler Street near Bustleton Avenue. The blaze was reported at 9:32 p.m. and was under control within 15 minutes, fire authorities said. The victim, whose name was not immediately known, was found pronounced dead at the scene.