1 MAN SHOT 16 TIMES, SURVIVES

A 29-year-old man was shot 16 times shortly before 3 p.m. yesterday on Mascher Street near Cambria, in the Fairhill section, and survived, police said.

The man, whose identity was not released, was taken to Temple University Hospital in extremely critical condition.

Police were seeking the assailant and trying to determine the motive for the attack.

2 GRAYS FERRY HOME INVASION

Police are seeking several men for a home invasion yesterday morning in Grays Ferry. A man who lives on 30th Street near Wharton told police that he was in his second-floor bedroom at about 9:50 a.m. when four or five men burst into his home and beat him unconscious, said Officer Tanya Little, a police spokeswoman.

When he came to, he found himself bound with duct tape to a chair, Little added. He was able to break free and went to a neighbor's house to alert police. He refused hospital treatment. It was not determined what, if anything, had been stolen, police said.

3 MAN IN SUV SHOT IN W. PHILLY

Two gunmen unleashed a barrage of bullets at a 36-year-old man as he sat in the driver's seat of an SUV at 53rd Street and Cedar Avenue, West Philadelphia, at about 1 p.m. yesterday, police said.

The victim was hit twice in the head and twice in the arm, and was in extremely critical condition at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Anyone with information about the shooting is urged to call Southwest Detectives at 215- 686-3183.

Lt. John Walker said that the gunmen, one of whom was wearing a gray hoodie, the other a dark-blue one, fired shots through the driver's-side window, the windshield and through the back window of the vehicle.

He said that the gunmen were on foot during the shooting, and ran south on 53rd Street afterward. Police did not yet have any leads on the gunmen or know why they had targeted the victim.

4 LAPTOPS STOLEN

FROM CHARTER SCHOOL

Police are searching for a man in connection with a theft from a Center City charter school yesterday afternoon.

About 12:05, a man walked into the Philadelphia Electrical and Technical Charter High School, on Chestnut Street near Broad, roamed the halls and stole two Dell laptops from classrooms, police said.

The bespectacled thief was wearing a blue "Spectra Security" guard jacket with fur around the collar, and black sneakers with white soles, police said.

Witnesses described him as about 5 feet 6 with a receding hairline. He is believed to be either a light-skinned black man or a Hispanic man between age 35 and 40 .

UPDATE:

VICTIM IDENTIFIED

IN STOLEN-CAR CRASH

Police have identified the passenger killed when a speeding, stolen car fleeing police rammed another car and three pedestrians Tuesday night in Kingsessing, as Kalil Sephus, 20, of Warrington Avenue near 56th Street.

The driver, 19, whose name police haven't released, remained in critical condition at Hahnemann University Hospital after the 7:10 p.m. crash on 58th Street near Chester Avenue, said Officer Tanya Little. He is under police guard and is expected to be charged.

Two of the three elderly pedestrians who were hit remain hospitalized at Hahnemann in critical condition, too.

One is a 79-year-old woman, with a broken leg; the other, an 84-year-old man, with head injuries.

Police began chasing the car, which had been reported stolen in Upper Darby, at 55th and Kingsessing, when the driver spotted police on routine patrol and sped away, Little said.

The driver was heading west on Chester Avenue when he blew through a red light and hit a 2007 Hyundai heading north on 58th, Little said.

The first car then smashed a utility pole, ejecting Sephus, Little added.

The driver of the second car and a third pedestrian, an 82-year-old woman, suffered minor injuries.

- Staff reports