18TH BIRTHDAY PARTY ENDS WITH EXECUTION

ROBEL LABOY

SHE couldn't wait to turn 18, but her party ended in chaos when someone walked in and started shooting.
Robel Laboy,17, was executed with a shot to the head at point blank range and his pal David Johnson, 19, was also shot as the celebrated the birthday of their friend Kalisha Coleman in the Chester, Penn social hall.
"Someone just opened the door and started firing," a party goer told the Daily Local News.
"It was crazy."
Cops, who brought dozens of people in for questioning after locking the building down, are holding one suspect, a 17-year-old male, but are still unsure of the motivation behind the monstrous onslaught.
According to the mayor, Wendell Butler one of the victims may have been as young as 13-years-old.
It's not the first time trouble has hit the community, where a state of emergency and 9 p.m. curfew was imposed last year after a rash of shootings left four people dead in eight days, including a 2-year-old boy.
Chester ended up with two dozen homicides last year, a 60 percent increase, four short of the all-time high number in 1993.
Police believe the illegal drug trade was the source of much of the violence, while others have blamed easy access to firearms.
The mayor added: "There may be a group of individuals who, unfortunately, one of their friends is murdered ... and those folks think they have to retaliate."