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RIDLEY PARK, Pa., Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Police said a carjacker shot and wounded a Philadelphia-area snake breeder in a parking lot where the victim planned to sell 20 young ball pythons and an adult.
The thief crashed the car nearby and fled on foot, the Delaware County Daily Times reported. The snakes, in two boxes in the back of the vehicle, were unharmed.
Lt. Scott Willoughby of the Ridley Park Police said the breeder, identified only as a 36-year-old man from Doylestown, had arranged to meet a buyer Sunday night in a parking lot near Interstate 95. The buyer, who said he was from New York and was driving to Georgia, had agreed to pay $12,600 for the snakes.
Just after the dealer got a text message saying the man he was meeting would be late, someone approached the driver's side of his sport utility vehicle with a gun, Willoughby said.
"He tells him to throw down the keys and get out of car and points a revolver at him," Willoughby said.
The dealer complied but was shot in the chest. He remained in critical condition Monday.
Investigators were unsure if the offer to buy the snakes was a cover for the carjacking.
The thief crashed the car nearby and fled on foot, the Delaware County Daily Times reported. The snakes, in two boxes in the back of the vehicle, were unharmed.
Lt. Scott Willoughby of the Ridley Park Police said the breeder, identified only as a 36-year-old man from Doylestown, had arranged to meet a buyer Sunday night in a parking lot near Interstate 95. The buyer, who said he was from New York and was driving to Georgia, had agreed to pay $12,600 for the snakes.
Just after the dealer got a text message saying the man he was meeting would be late, someone approached the driver's side of his sport utility vehicle with a gun, Willoughby said.
"He tells him to throw down the keys and get out of car and points a revolver at him," Willoughby said.
The dealer complied but was shot in the chest. He remained in critical condition Monday.
Investigators were unsure if the offer to buy the snakes was a cover for the carjacking.