At seven-thirty in the evening of August 24, 1933 twenty-year old John Lerro was sitting on the stoop of the family house. Though young, Lerro was known as numbers guy in his South Philadelphia bailiwick. It appears to have been the family business as two of his brother in-laws and an uncle by marriage had been bumped off in the previous six months. Lerro himself had been questioned in a murder from two years previous.
As Lerro sat on his steps a sedan turned the corner and sped towards him. Sensing trouble, the young man rose to run inside but he was to late. Two pistols came out of the sedan window and opened fire. In the barrage, Lerro was hit twice in the chest and was killed.
John Lerro
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