An eastern Pennsylvania man has been convicted of attempted murder and robbery in a shooting that wounded a snake dealer at a suburban Philadelphia shopping center three years ago.
The Delaware County Daily Times reports that 35-year-old Rasheem Dowdy of Allentown was also convicted in Delaware County of aggravated assault, robbery of a motor vehicle and a firearms count.
Ridley Township police said Dowdy set up a $12,600 snake purchase but then robbed the breeder in the Woodlyn Shopping Center parking lot in January 2012. The robber fled in the dealer's vehicle but crashed it in Folsom. Police later recovered a handgun and a jacket containing another gun from nearby train tracks.
Prosecutors said DNA tests of the weapons and clothing matched a sample taken from Dowdy.
Man Convicted of Shooting, Robbing Snake Dealer
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