LOVE PARK LOVE TRIANGLE!!!!!!!!!
While Tony Stewart stayed cool, lounging in the shade near the LOVE Park fountain, a bitter feud started to heat up between his girlfriend and another woman.
"Man, they were up there fighting over me," Stewart said yesterday, gesturing toward benches that line the other side of the park near JFK Boulevard.
Cops said that the squabble reached a tipping point at about 3 p.m., when Stewart's homeless girlfriend, Yvette Prince, slugged her rival in the head. The other woman, also homeless, jumped up and plunged a knife into Prince's chest.
Prince, 45, died of her injuries at Hahnemann University Hospital at 4:54 p.m., investigators said. The unidentified stabber, who is in her 50s, was taken into police custody, but charges were not filed as of last night.
The afternoon murder left the homeless population inhabiting LOVE Park's many benches and quiet areas beside themselves.
But the fatal stabbing seemed to have little effect on dozens of tourists who filed past the bloody crime scene and mugged for photos in front of the iconic LOVE sculpture or dipped their toes into the fountain.
"I just can't believe it. [Prince] was a nice woman," said Leroy McQueen, 45, as police officers put a maze of crime scene tape around benches and decorative planters.
Stewart, 44, who is also homeless, said that he had spent the past two months in LOVE Park with Prince. He claimed that Prince and the other woman started bickering over him last week.
"I told her to leave that damn girl alone," Stewart said. "She [the stabber] was never right in the head. She used to sit up all night on that one bench and just stare."
McQueen said that he watched as Prince grabbed her chest and collapsed near a planter after she was stabbed.
"Her chest and her pants were covered with blood," he said.
Brendan Jennings, a Fairmount Park ranger who was monitoring the park yesterday, rushed to Prince's aid.
"I ran and got a shirt and gloves, put the shirt on her wound and applied pressure," he said.
"I told her to squeeze my hand, which she did, but she was in and out of consciousness."
Stewart said that he watched the other homeless woman quietly and calmly return to her bench after stabbing Prince. "She just sat there like nothing happened."
Cops found the crimson-stained knife and a dark-colored glove in a planter a few feet from the spot where Prince fell.
The woman was cooperating with police but claimed that she didn't know Stewart, investigators said.
Another man showed up at police headquarters last night and claimed that he, too, was a love interest of both women. *
posted on 08/06/08 by ricky
Tj Said:
Thats wild yo. Philly aint no joke. but then again, Trenton aint either....on 08/06/08
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