. >>> beaten, stabbed and left to die in a pool of her own blood, 33-year-old deborah gulliver was found dead in a philadelphia park tonight. her mother said her daughter did not die without putting up a fight. >> whoever was there at that point in time, she put up a fight for darn sure. >> i'm jim rosenfield. the killer and motive remain a mystery to philadelphia police. denise nakano is joining us live from police headquarters. denise, what an ordeal for the mom you spoke to tonight. >> reporter: certainly it was, jim. as she talked to us, she was in tears at some points. but she talked about her daughter and visiting the scene for the first time today. >> i wanted to take the path. i wanted to maybe pretend i was here. >> reporter: nancy retraced the steps of her daughter's final moments today in a park behind dobbins technical high school in north philadelphia. >> she was dressed in flip-flops and tank top and pocketbook and ponytail, going home. and never made it. >> reporter: her only daughter, 33-year-old deborah gulliver, at 5 feet tall, was knocked to the ground, beaten and stab

they found deborah gulliver's purse all dumped out nearby where they found her body. dead right on the scene in this park across from where phillies used to play at connie mack stadium at 21st and lehigh. they have three people who may have witnessed it or heard it. they all called 911. two didn't stick around to talk to police in person and police with like to have them come forward but sadly, alex and thomas, this is one of the four murders new really stood out over weekend because it was so brutal, barbaric and savage. those are word that the detectives used to describe what happened, stabbed at lee, 15 times, who knows what else, deborah gulliver's pants were pulled down, down to her knees , so they think somebody was trying to rape her and she tried to fight them off but stab wounds go from her legs all the way up to her chest know. we will find out more from the medical examiner when autopsy results come in later today. >> details are so troubling, lets get some answers for the family members. it is heart breaking, steve, thank you. >>> 6:07. developing right no

behind dobbins high school in north philadelphia is identified today as three three-year old deborah gulliver. >> she was with friend about an hour beforehand in the area of kensington and somerset. she took the bows that location. she got off the bus and on her way home. >> reporter: police say gulliver took a short cut through park behind dobbins high school when she was attacked and killed. her body was found around 3:00 e able to locate surveillance video that shows gulliver entering the parka loan just 30 minutes before. >> in one following her, whoever did this we believe was already, in the park. >> reporter: authorities say that the attacker bludgeoned gulliver in the face pulled her pants to her angles and stabbed her repeatedly from the thigh to her chest, until the blade of the knife broke off inside of her. they still cannot say if there was a sexual assault and have no description of the suspect. >> we're asking for public's help if anyone has any information about this brutal murder, to contact our unit. >> reporter: authorities are also warning people around here to be vigilant

family and friend will gather at dobbins high school at 21st and lehigh avenue to remember deborah gulliver at 5:00 p.m. as she was walking home early saturday morning when vicious lay tack in rayburn park. police say the three-year old was stabbed 12 times, a $20,000 reward is available to help find her killer. >>> police in paterson, new jersey are searching for a suspect who stole a street sweeper there just before 2:00 r was changing a garbage bag. suspect went on a joy ride crashing into several cars before running away, worker was not injured but there is extensive damage to those park cars. >>> fbi has been secretly recording phone conversations of top fail officials, including mayor jim kenney. this is the wiretap notice, officials received from the federal government, the recordings part of the fbi probe into john dock hurt, head of the local 98. last august agents raided dougherty's home in south philadelphia, and they also went to union headquarters on spring garden street. "eyewitness news" caught up with the mayor. >> i don't know how you could not talk to john dougherty or maj

that is where phillies used to play before moving to south philadelphia and where deborah gulliver was last alive before taking her usual walk home from the park from the 21st and lehigh septa bus stop to rayburn park to her north 25th street home. upper darby high school grad is one of the four people murdered over weekend in fail but only one detectives still don't know why she was kill. she was stabbed 15 times among the questions yet to be answered this one from the medical examiner, this was an attempted rape she tried to fight off. >> her pants were partially pulled down. we are still waiting for medical examiner's report. we should get that today or early tomorrow and that can answer that question. right now we do not know. she was with friend in the area of kensington and somerset. she took the bus to that location. she got off the bus and was on her way home. she cut through the parkas she normally would and this time she encountered individual or individual who knocked her to the ground, brutally beat her and stabbed her multiple times we are pulling a lot of area video hopef

"eyewitness news" had a vigil for deborah gulliver in north philadelphia, police are searching for suspects in her death, on saturday, gulliver took a shortcut home through a park. her body was found around 3:00 a.m. about 30 minutes after she entered the park. >>> a 2-year-old is recovering after police say a farm terror ran over the little boy. it happened in lumberton burlington county. just before 6:00 tonight. the boy's injuries are not life-threatening, and paramedics flew to cooper university hospital with the boy. police are investigating the cause of the accident. >>> a top carnival is facing sexual assault charges. australian police charged cardinal the chief financial advisor to pope francis and australia's most senior catholic. the incidents are believed to have occurred some time ago. he will return to australia and appear in court on july 18th. he denies wrongdoing >>> a local coach is under arrest after police say he sexual assaulted children in bensalem bucks county. a judge set his bail as $300,000. shannon westmoreland coached football for the athletic association between

they are figuring whoever killed deborah gulliver was already in this park next to dobbins high school when she walk in at the war possible time. usual short cut home for deborah that ended up cutting her life short overnight early saturday morning. she was out with friend late friday night into saturday. they share a septa bus ride home to their north philadelphia neighborhood with one getting off going one way at 21st and lehigh and deborah going the opposite way toward her home on 25th street. she never made it. found on the sidewalk pathway in the park by a guy who told police he also just been robbed himself when he came across deborah's body her clothes partially off, she had been stabbed probably 15 times , from her chest down to her legs indicate ago this she struggled mightily to survive and many defensive wound slash es. >> we're asking for the public 's help if anyone has any information about this brutal murder. she cut through the park, an area had she normally would but she encountered an individual or individuals who are knocked her to the ground, brutally beat her and s

"eyewitness news" had a vigil for deborah gulliver in north philadelphia, police are searching for suspectsin her death, on saturday, gulliver took a shortcut home through a park. her body was found around 3:00 a.m. about 30 minutes after she entered the park. >>> a 2-year-old is recovering after police say a farm terror ran over the little boy. it happened in lumberton burlington county. just before 6:00 tonight. the boy's injuries are not life-threatening, and paramedics flew to cooper university hospital with the boy. police are investigating the cause of the accident. >>> a top carnival is facing sexual assault charges. australian police charged cardinal the chief financial advisor to pope francis and australia's most senior catholic. the incidents are believed to have occurred some time ago. he will return to australia and appear in court on july 18th. he denies wrongdoing >>> a local coach is under arrest after police say he sexual assaulted children in bensalem bucks county. a judge set his bail as $300,000. shannon westmoreland coached football for the athletic association between 1

"eyewitness news" at a vigil for deborah gulliver last night in philadelphia gulliver was walking home when she took a short cut through rayburn park. police say gulliver was viciously attacked and stabbed 12 timesdobbins high school, family and friend paid tribute to the three three-year old. >> this is somebody's daughter , somebody's friend, somebody's aunt, that was just viciously murdered in the park , and somebody knows something. >> police say gulliver enter the park around 2:30 a.m. saturday morning, her body was found 30 minutes later at 3:00 police are offering a $20,000 reward for information to help get her killer off the streets >>> police need your help in the case of the an attack caught on camera. violence happened in west chester, in the video you see a man punching another man on gay street sunday morning. victim suffered a serious head injury and right now in critical condition. anyone with any information is asked to call police. >>> fiance of the man charged with sucker punching a disable man in chester county is facing charges as well. prosecutors say that denise

vigil set for 5:00 o'clock tonight at dobbins high school at 21st and lehigh avenue in memory of deborah gulliver, the three three-year old was walking home saturday morning when she was stabbed 12 times in rayburn park, friend say that she used it as a short cut to her house, police are offering a $20,000 reward for helping in finding her killer. >>> well philadelphia's mayor jim kenney and other city officials are learning that for more than a year their phone conversation where is secretly recorded by the fbi. this is wiretap notice that the officials received from the federal government. recordings are part of the fbi probe into john dougherty, head of the local 98. last august, agents raided dougherty's home in southwest philadelphia. they also went to the union headquarters on spring garden street. "eyewitness news" caught up with the mayor. >> it is just standard pro forma. i don't know how you cannot talk to john dougherty or majority leader of council over a two year period and not be recorded. >> philadelphia city councilman bobby henon is also under fbi investigation and he declined to

. >> vigil for deborah gulliver was held behind dobbins high school last night, the three three-year old victim was murdered early saturday morning. she took a short cut home to ray burn park when police say she was fatally stabbed 12 times some who spoke at the vigil called for justice for gulliver. >> this is somebody's daughter , somebody's friend, somebody's aunt, that was just viciously murdered in this park and somebody knows something. >> gulliver's body was found around 3:00 in the morning on saturday, 30 minutes after she entered the park. police are still searching for her killer. a $20,000 reward is offered in exchange for information leading to an arrest. >>> video is stunning, this u-haul truck narrowly misses a woman coming smashing through a restaurant in northern liberties. closer look now, woman jumped out of her seat when truck crashed in the restaurant there. this all happened yesterday while having lunch at urban village brewing company in northern liberties, we spoke to that woman who says it is still hard to believe. >> it is just, unreal, it felt like a movie,

"eyewitness news" what the a community vigil for deborah gulliver, just a short time ago, people gathered at dobbins high school to sign a banner and youth photograph. the three three-year old was violently stabbed behind a park in the high school as she walk home early saturday morning. police are offering a $20,000 reward for any help in find herring killer. >>> day of celebration for animal lovers every where, today's pennsylvania governor tom wolf signed tough new legislation, that protects animals from cruelty and knee globing. lawmakers are calling it a huge victory for animals throughout pennsylvania. the stroke of the pen, governor tom wolf signed animal cruelty prevention bill into law. >> no one should be, allowed to get away with the neglect of animals and now thanks to this statute, they won't be able to getaway with it. >> reporter: comprehensive bipartisan measure increases penalties for animal abuse, called the dog that was on hand for the signing, found severely abused and neglected as a puppy and nursed back to health making a miraculous recovery in pennsylvania, torturin

avenue in north philadelphia where family, friends and neighbors gathered in remembrance of deborah gulliver she had just gotten off a bus early saturday morning, when she was knocked to the ground and beaten and stabbed more than 12 times. police still don't have a suspect or a motive. >>> a toddler's recovering after he was hit by a farm tractor in south jersey. in the 300 block of landing street. the 2-year-old's expected to be okay. >>> independence day may have a little more sparkle for some people in new jersey. governor chris christie signed a law that immediately lifts the state's ban on some fireworks. they include hand-held and ground-based sparkleers. firecrackers and bottle rockets along with other explosive and aerial fireworks will still be illegal. >>> in pennsylvania, a bill that could seal some criminal records cleared the state senate today. under the bill, records of nonviolent misdemeanors and arrests that don't result in a conviction would be sealed, but only after a person has remained crime-free for ten years. the bill now heads to the state house where there is less s

authorities found three three-year old deborah gulliver early saturday morning, near dobbins high school and 21st and lehigh avenue. she had just gotten off bus and walking through the park when someone attacked her. she was three blocks from home >> she caught the bus from kensington area, to 21st and lehigh with one male friend. when they get off the bus. he allegedly goes one way, she cuts through the park. >> police say they have interviewed victim's friend, right now, $20,000 reward is being offered for information, leading to an arrest in the case. >>> philadelphia police are also searching for a hit and run driver who plowed through an active crime scene overnight, authorities say officers were investigating a carjacking at the time and happened around 2:30 near i street and erie avenue and har rowgate. speeding black nissan narrowly missed several officers but damaged a patrol car and several police bikes. >> there was in logical reason for this, this vehicle may have done this intentionally, in an attempt to harm the officers. >> you saw what is going on. there is no reason that

to remember deborah gulliver, the three three-year old was walking home early saturday morning when she was vicious lay tacked at ray burn park. police say she was stabbed 12 times. a $20,000 reward is being offered for any information leading to her killer. >>> testimony resumes today in the federal corruption trial of philadelphia district attorney seth williams. bar owner michael wise was on the stand yesterday, prosecutors claimed that wise, who has been quick of tax fraud, showered williams with cash, plane tickets, vacations in exchange for helping him rebuild his reputation. defense terence says williams was tapping into wise's knowledge of lbgt affairs. our joe holden caught up with seth williams outside court. >> reporter: how is it going in there? what do you think. >> i'm very thankful of my attorneys. >> reporter: thankful to have your attorneys? >> yes. >> reporter: during his testimony williams shook his head and rolled his eyes so often he actual a floyd the judge and during the break the judge warned him that the next time, he would be scolded in front of the jury. >>> t

deborah gulliver walking in. they didn't see anybody following her. they think somebody came in from the park from the opposite way or they already had been in the park and you heard him say they they didn't rule out the guy, one of the 340 called 911 and alex and thomas he said he was also a robbery victim, just before he came across her body laying on the pavement there, and that is what made him call 911. not being a victim of a robbery himself. they are wandberg his story. >> so much to learn in this disturbing case, steve keeley, thank you. >>> also new this morning investigators are investigating an apartment fire here it is on north 11th street, crews say fire started building around around 1:45 this morning. it took fire fighters an hurry to get the flames under control. the good news is there are in injuries. >>> and authorities in york say a delaware girl do you remember this video we showed you yesterday at an amusement park ride at six flags, she was dangling from that ride, 25 feet up. >> so she landed in arms of bystanders at queensbury

. >> reporter: ron says his childhood friend deborah gulliver had big dreams an big heart. he's finding it hard to fathom how quickly those dreams were ripped away. this is a photo from a gofundme site set up for the 31-year-old upper darby native who was found stabbed and beaten to death in the park by dobbins technical high school saturday morning. >> she is very loved by a lot of people. >> she was brutally assaulted. she was stabbed in excess of 12 times. >> reporter: hospital side captain james clark says debbie was headed home after night out. she and a friend got off the bus at 21st and lehigh around 2:30 this morning. the friend told homicide detectives he and debbi deb hean opposite directions. she caught through the park. three blocks from her home. a typical route for her. but debbie never made it home. police are reviewing surveillance video. >> we did see the victim entering the location. no one following her. whoever did this we believe was already in the park at this time roar entered from another direction. >> reporter: half an hour after she left her friend