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Man Killed Outside PYT

Posted by Foobooz on June 11th, 2012

A shooting outside PYT on the Piazza at Schmidt’s leaves Maurice Kimble, 25, of Upper Darby dead. The shooting happened just after midnight when an altercation spilled out of PYT and onto the Piazza.

Three years ago Rian Thal and  Timothy Gilmore were killed in the hallway of Thal’s apartment building at The Piazza and just last month, Donte Johnson was convicted in the rape and murder of PYT waitress Sabina Rose O’Donnell.

Police: 1 dead after gunfire erupts at Piazza at Schmidt’s [Philly.com]

UPDATE: Philadelphia Police have identified 23-year-old Steven Miller as the suspect in the case. Police say he shot and killed Maurice Kimble on Hancock Street outside the PYT. [NBC10]

Photos by Joseph Kaczmarek

Piazza at Schmidts
1001 N 2nd St, Philadelphia, PA

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    • Andrew

      Surprised it took this long.

    • Snake

      @Andrew

      It didn’t. There have been a few murders around the immediate area since the Piazza opened.

    • Daytime Drinker.

      The Piazza attracts a super sketchy element especially PYT and there is no security not to mention parking in that creepy parking lot. Snake is correct there was the double drug murder in the buildings right after it opened. Smart people who fear for their lives avoid the piazza.

    • Dan

      haha, yea super dangerous. I’m sure that this would just happen to any person just minding their own business…

    • Ryan

      Northern Liberties – the new Old City.

    • nolibres

      I had to search hard to find my surprise face on when told that there was a shooting/murder at PYT. Daytime Drinker is right about the sketchy factor. The Piazza could be an awesome place. How many liquor licenses are in that complex? just asking… Liberties Walk seems to work better. @Dan- It WAS a super dangerous place at 12:30am yesterday morning.

    • rory

      oh, so one shooting = a super dangerous place? where in philly isn’t super dangerous then? go back to the ‘burbs.

    • barryg

      PYT and Darlings are the only establishments in the Piazza that has been open more than a year or so, and PYT is succeeding by attracting this element. Can we declare the Piazza a failure yet?

    • Dan

      Haha, stay in your homes watching the evening news and keep freaking yourself out into a conniption. The media eats up these non-stories like they’re yogorino.

      Dude was a thug and died a thug. Rian Thal and Timothy Gilmore were coke dealers. I heard that there is some risk in that line of work. Sabina Rose was murdered by a crazy person. As horrible as it is, crazy happens everywhere.

      Hmmm, what’s more important this or our failing schools and the possibility that AVI will be passed without any understanding of what this will mean. Doubtful that the above commenters are aware of these issues, because they don’t make the blogs and local news.

    • rory

      “this element.”

      uggh…stop sounding like a philly.com comment.

    • barryg

      @Dan, this is a food & drink blog, not a Philly politics blog. Yea he was a thug but why is the only place in the Piazza that can stay in business attracting thugs? Makes me not want to go to the Piazza–not that anything there has a draw from outside the neighborhood anyway.

    • J

      so if I get shot at a bar, then I’m a thug? shut up!

    • Piazza

      Many of the bars have been opened more then a year. PYT is the only one that attracts trash

    • Stop

      “PYT is the only one that attracts trash” – have you seen the crowd at King’s Oak? Do the guys just happen to forget to wear shirts there or did they mysteriously lose them on the way from the tanning salon? I thought it was a one time random event, but walking down 2nd Street on various weekends proved me wrong. Please, can everyone just go back to Old City? I want my neighborhood back. Thanks.

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